How to set timezone in Django? : Pythoneo

Let’s set timezone in Django. It is easy to configure and you will learn where and how to do itfrom this article.

Setting the time_zone

By default, the application written in Django set the TIME_ZONE variable, responsible for the definition of the local time zone, to ‘America / Chicago’. You can configure it by default in the settings.py file.

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In newer versions of Django, the settings.py file already contains an entry:

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

You may want to change that. First you will need this Wikipedia link to get timezone names.

You can change your timezone to eg.:

TIME_ZONE = 'US/Central'

To apply timezone you need also to set below variable time zone.

USE_TZ = True