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pytz.exceptions.UnknownTimeZoneError: 'Asia/kolkata'

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python

django

In my project (made in Virtual Environment), when I run the server, it gives me no errors. But when I open the 127.0.0.1:8000 , it gives me an error saying:

A server error occurred. Please contact the administrator.

Had referred the below post to set the timezone to 'Asia/kolkata':-

How to add Indian Standard Time (IST) in Django?

It worked fine till yesterday and today I got an error in prompt as:

  File "C:\Users\Ajay\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pytz\__init__.py", line 181, in timezone
    raise UnknownTimeZoneError(zone)
pytz.exceptions.UnknownTimeZoneError: 'Asia/kolkata'

How to tackle this? (Using Django V2.1)

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Ajay Bhagchandani Avatar asked Jan 18 '26 12:01

Ajay Bhagchandani


1 Answers

'Asia/kolkata' needs to be capitalized as 'Asia/Kolkata' in settings.py

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mattlarsen0 Avatar answered Jan 21 '26 03:01

mattlarsen0



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