How to show UTC time in local timezone in Django view?

Question

I use UTC in my Django app and I want to display the time for my local timezone; 'Europe/Stockholm'. I just can't get this simple thing to work so I must be doing something wrong. I just can't figure out what it is...

This is what I have in my settings.py:

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True

And this is how I get the date that is passed to my template:

my_time = datetime.datetime.utcnow()

And finally this is what i have in my template file:

{% load tz ‰}

{% timezone 'Europe/Stockholm' %}{{ my_time|time }}{% endtimezone %}

But whatever timezone I use in {% timezone ... %} the date always read the same 20:31, and the local time should in fact be 22:31.

Thankful for any help with this!

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 31 '21 at 06:26

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in settings.py change TIME_ZONE = 'UTC' to TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Stockholm'

You also need to replace utcnow() method with now()

my_time = datetime.datetime.now()

edited Mar 31 '21 at 06:26

alv2017

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answered Mar 30 '21 at 21:41

Mugoya Dihfahsih

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I tried that too without success... The output did not change. – learningbydoing Mar 30 '21 at 22:02
check the edited answer if it works for you – Mugoya Dihfahsih Mar 31 '21 at 06:29

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 30 '21 at 22:35

The normal way to use local times is to set TIME_ZONE or call activate().

That said, you can use the timezone template tag if you want to. The problem is with utcnow(). As noted in the documentation, that returns a naive datetime, which means that it's not timezone-aware. Use Django's now() instead; that will return a timezone-aware datetime that can be adjusted.

How to show UTC time in local timezone in Django view?

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