How can I get the timezone aware date in django?

Question

I am using delorean for datetime calculation in python django.

http://delorean.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart.html

This is what I am using:

now = Delorean(timezone=settings.TIME_ZONE).datetime todayDate = now.date() 

But I get this warning:

RuntimeWarning: DateTimeField start_time received a naive datetime (2014-12-09 00:00:00) while time zone support is active. 

I want to know how to make it aware.

I tried this as well:

todayDate = timezone.make_aware(now.date(), timezone=settings.TIME_ZONE) 

then I get this:

AttributeError: 'datetime.date' object has no attribute 'tzinfo' 

Answer 1

It's not clear whether you're trying to end up with a date object or a datetime object, as Python doesn't have the concept of a "timezone aware date".

To get a date object corresponding to the current time in the current time zone, you'd use:

# All versions of Django from django.utils.timezone import localtime, now localtime(now()).date()  # Django 1.11 and higher from django.utils.timezone import localdate localdate() 

That is: you're getting the current timezone-aware datetime in UTC; you're converting it to the local time zone (i.e. TIME_ZONE); and then taking the date from that.

If you want to get a datetime object corresponding to 00:00:00 on the current date in the current time zone, you'd use:

# All versions of Django localtime(now()).replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)  # Django 1.11 and higher localtime().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0) 

Based on this and your other question, I think you're getting confused by the Delorean package. I suggest sticking with Django's and Python's datetime functionality.