Setting Django admin display times to local time?

Question

When I see dates and times in the admin, they are displayed in UTC. I'd like for them to be displayed in my local timezone. I checked the TIME_ZONE setting in the docs, though it doesn't look like that is quite what I want. TIME_ZONE determines the time zone for the datetimes stored in the database, which is not what I want to set -- I just want to localize the time zones for the admin, but not change how they are saved at the database level.

Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

In Django：

The default time zone is the time zone defined by the TIME_ZONE setting.

The current time zone is the time zone that’s used for rendering.

so you should set the "current time zone" use:

django.utils.timezone.activate(timezone)

You can activate it in a middleware(don't forger to register it to MIDDLEWARE in settings.py):

import pytz    
from django.utils import timezone

class TimezoneMiddleware:
    def __init__(self, get_response):
        self.get_response = get_response

    def __call__(self, request):
        timezone.activate(pytz.timezone('Asia/Shanghai')
        return self.get_response(request)

This is only a simple hardcode. you can making a form to select tzinfo, store it in user's profile and load it to user session, read the tzinfo from the session in the middleware.

The official documentation has a related description: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/i18n/timezones/#selecting-the-current-time-zone

Reference：

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/E4aiv3O6vGo

Answer 2

This isn't supported natively in Django as of 2.1. However https://github.com/charettes/django-sundial may provide what you need -- this adds a User.timezone model field so that you can configure it per-user.

(This middleware is very simple -- under the covers it's just calling timezone.activate(zone) to change the rendered site's timezone).