How to set the timezone in Django

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In my django project s settings py file  I have this line    TIME ZONE    UTC    But I want my app to run in UTC 2 timezone  so I changed it to  TIME ZONE    UTC 2    It gives the error ValueError  Incorrect timezone setting  UTC 2  What is the correct way of doing this   Thanks

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Use Area Location format properly  Example  TIME ZONE    Asia Kolkata

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Here is the list of valid timezones   http   en wikipedia org wiki List of tz database time zones  You can use  TIME ZONE    Europe Istanbul    for UTC 02 00

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Valid timeZone values are based on the tz  timezone  database used by Linux and other Unix systems  The values are strings  xsd string  in the form    Area Location     in which   Area is a continent or ocean name  Area currently includes    Africa America  both North America and South America  Antarctica Arctic Asia Atlantic Australia Europe Etc  administrative zone  For example     Etc UTC    represents Coordinated Universal Time   Indian Pacific   Location is the city  island  or other regional name   The zone names and output abbreviations adhere to POSIX  portable operating system interface  UNIX conventions  which uses positive     signs west of Greenwich and negative  -  signs east of Greenwich  which is the opposite of what is generally expected  For example     Etc GMT 4    corresponds to 4 hours behind UTC  that is  west of Greenwich  rather than 4 hours ahead of UTC  Coordinated Universal Time   east of Greenwich    Here is a list all valid timezones  You can change time zone in your settings py as follows  LANGUAGE CODE    en-us   TIME ZONE    Asia Kolkata   USE I18N   True  USE L10N   True  USE TZ   True

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Change the TIME ZONE to your local time zone  and keep USE TZ as True in  setting py     TIME ZONE    Asia Shanghai   USE I18N   True  USE L10N   True  USE TZ   True This will write and store the datetime object as UTC to the backend database  Then use template tag to convert the UTC time in your frontend template as such                lt td gt                      load tz                       get current timezone as tz                       timezone tz                           message log date   time  H i s                        endtimezone                  lt  td gt     or use the template filters concisely                    lt td gt                          load tz                           message log date   localtime   time  H i s                      lt  td gt     You could check more details in the official doc  Default time zone and current time zone  When support for time zones is enabled  Django stores datetime information in UTC in the database  uses time-zone-aware datetime objects internally  and translates them to the end user   s time zone in templates and forms

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To get a set of all valid timezone names  ids  from the tz database  you could use pytz module in Python    gt  gt  gt  import pytz     pip install pytz  gt  gt  gt  pytz all timezones set LazySet   Africa Abidjan             Africa Accra             Africa Addis Ababa             Africa Algiers             Africa Asmara             Africa Asmera                          UTC             Universal             W-SU             WET             Zulu

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Universal solution  based on Django s TZ name support   UTC-2    Etc GMT 2  UTC-1    Etc GMT 1  UTC    Etc GMT 0  UTC 1    Etc GMT-1  UTC 2    Etc GMT-2      - is intentionally switched

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download latest pytz file  pytz-2019 3 tar gz  from   https   pypi org simple pytz   copy and extract it to site packages directory on yor project in cmd go to the extracted folder and run   python setup py install  TIME ZONE    Etc GMT 2  or country name

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Choose a valid timezone from the tzinfo database  They tend to take the form e g  Africa Gaborne and US Eastern  Find the one which matches the city nearest you  or the one which has your timezone  then set your value of TIME ZONE to match

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I found this question looking to change the timezone in my Django project s settings py file to the United Kingdom   Using the tz database in jfs  solution I found the answer       TIME ZONE    Europe London

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