It turns out its my stupid host that's not handling the dates
properly. I wrote a Python script and tested:
#! /usr/bin/env python
import os
import datetime
def do_test(tz):
if tz != '':
os.environ['TZ'] = tz
print '%20s: %s' % (tz, datetime.datetime.today())
[do_test(tz) for tz in ('', 'America/New_York', 'America/Denver')]
This outputs:
: 2008-09-03 17:28:43.784919
America/New_York: 2008-09-03 23:28:43.784996
America/Denver: 2008-09-03 23:28:43.785047
As you can see, it don't workee. I then discovered the timezone "EST
+05EDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0", here: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-time.html
and gave that a try. Here's the output now correctly showing 2 hours
difference:
: 2008-09-03 17:32:54.726285
America/New_York: 2008-09-03 23:32:54.726363
America/Denver: 2008-09-03 23:32:54.726409
EST+05EDT,M4.1.0,M10.5.0: 2008-09-03 19:32:54.726451
So if there's any Westhosters out there, you'll benefit from this.
On Aug 25, 11:30 pm, lingrlongr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's more info:
>
> $ ./manage.py shell
> Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Mar 23 2007, 14:22:20)
> [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> (InteractiveConsole)>>> from datetime import datetime
> >>> datetime.today()
>
> datetime.datetime(2008, 8, 26, 3, 25, 47, 588753)
>
> $ python
> Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Mar 23 2007, 14:22:20)
> [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>>
> from datetime import datetime
> >>> datetime.today()
>
> datetime.datetime(2008, 8, 25, 21, 26, 21, 383524)
>
> Keith
>
> On Aug 25, 11:11 pm, lingrlongr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm a little confused about theTIME_ZONEsetting in settings.py. I
> > originally had it set to 'America/New_York', because that's the time
> > zone where I'm located, but I noticed the times were ~4 hours off when
> > I would save an object that had a DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
> > field in the model. Instead I tried to set theTIME_ZONEvalue to
> > where the web server was, Utah, so I used 'America/Denver'.
>
> > I saved an object while configured for Denver, timestamp was for
> > 2:40am. I changed the setting back to New_York and saved another
> > object, the the timestamp was for 2:52am. Local time for me was
> > ~10pm.
>
> > Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Mar 23 2007, 14:22:20)
> > [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)] on linux2
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>>
> > import datetime
> > >>> datetime.datetime.today()
>
> > datetime.datetime(2008, 8, 25, 21, 9, 15, 497672)
>
> > $ date
> > Mon Aug 25 21:09:45 MDT 2008
>
> > I would like the times to shown as Eastern Time zone. What should I
> > set theTIME_ZONEsetting to?
>
> > Keith
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