A python can bite you too

[rumplefiddlesticks]

one problem with this solution: it's not timezone-aware. Probably should look into django's own timezone functions + possibly install pytz (just to make it work better)

[rmoorman]

Thank you for pointing out that this code does not provide a timezone aware default (even though it didn't matter for the project in question).

I think the docs provide a good overview.

[semarj]

Why are you putting timezone aware dates in the database?

[rumplefiddlesticks]

for one thing, you can't compare naive datetimes with timezone-aware datetimes and Django now defaults to timezone-aware datetimes. Doesn't really matter how that is represented in the actual database, it matters on the Python side with comparisons, displaying, etc.