why does timezone aware datetime have 2 times in django

Question

I set a date to midnight like this:

user_tz = timezone('America/Los_Angeles')
day_start = user_tz.localize(entered_at.replace(hour=00, minute=00))

I print the date and it looks like so:

start date: 2014-08-21 00:00:00-07:00

What is the -7:00 at the end and how do I make it go away?

Answer 1

Your question is answered by this part of the Django documentation. In short, it's the UTC offset: the time difference between the timezone you have selected and UTC.

To "make it go away", convert the aware datetime to a naive datetime, or set user_tz to the UTC timezone.