Just always use timezone.now(). Django now has timezone support which requires timezone ‘aware’ datetime objects. datetime.now() will return a timezone naive object, whereas timezone.now() will return a timezone aware object. Read more about Django timezones
See question #2 in the “Usage” section of the Django docs. >>> from django.utils import timezone >>> timezone.localtime(timezone.now()) Since the doc above also talks about a best practice, including an excerpt below: How can I obtain the local time in the current time zone? Well, the first question is, do you really need to? You … Read more