pytz and astimezone() cannot be applied to a naive datetime
For pytz
timezones, use their .localize()
method to turn a naive datetime
object into one with a timezone:
start_date = local_tz.localize(start_date)
For timezones without a DST transition, the .replace()
method to attach a timezone to a naive datetime
object should normally also work:
start_date = start_date.replace(tzinfo=local_tz)
See the localized times and date arithmetic of the pytz documentation for more details.
You could use local_tz.localize(naive_dt, is_dst=None)
to convert a naive datetime object to timezone-aware one.
from datetime import datetimeimport pytzlocal_tz = pytz.timezone('Asia/Tokyo')start_date = local_tz.localize(datetime(2012, 9, 27), is_dst=None)now_utc = datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)print start_date > now_utc
is_dst=None
forces .localize() to raise an exception if given local time is ambiguous.
If you are using Django Rest Framework you could override the DateTimeField class like:
class DateTimeFieldOverridden(serializers.DateTimeField):def to_representation(self, value): local_tz = pytz.timezone(TIME_ZONE) value = local_tz.localize(value) return super(DateTimeFieldOverridden, self).to_representation(value)
And you use it like this in your serializer:
date_time = DateTimeFieldOverridden(format='%d-%b-%Y', read_only=True)
Hope this helps someone.