A strange problem in django.utils.timezone

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#1

I found a strange problem in Django
code:

from django.utils import timezone
from Blog.settings import TIME_ZONE

print(" django.utils.timezone.now: {0}  |  settings.TIME_ZONE: {1}  ".format(
    timezone.now().tzname(), 
    TIME_ZONE 
    )
)

output:

django.utils.timezone.now: UTC  |  settings.TIME_ZONE: Asia/Tehran
#2

Why do you think that’s either “strange” or a “problem”? This looks like perfectly reasonable behavior to me.

From the docs at: Time zones | Django documentation | Django

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.

Since you’re not using that value in a template or a form, I see no reason why it shouldn’t be stored internally as UTC.

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#3

Thanks for your help
I used this method

from django.utils import timezone
time = timezone.localtime(time)