How to set the timezone in Django?

Question

In my django project\'s settings.py file, I have this line :

TIME_ZONE = \'UTC\'

But I want my app to run in UTC+2 timezone, s

Answer 1

Valid timeZone values are based on the tz (timezone) database used by Linux and other Unix systems. The values are strings (xsd:string) in the form “Area/Location,” in which:

Area is a continent or ocean name. Area currently includes:

• Africa
• America (both North America and South America)
• Antarctica
• Arctic
• Asia
• Atlantic
• Australia
• Europe
• Etc (administrative zone. For example, “Etc/UTC” represents Coordinated Universal Time.)
• Indian
• Pacific

Location is the city, island, or other regional name.

The zone names and output abbreviations adhere to POSIX (portable operating system interface) UNIX conventions, which uses positive (+) signs west of Greenwich and negative (-) signs east of Greenwich, which is the opposite of what is generally expected. For example, “Etc/GMT+4” corresponds to 4 hours behind UTC (that is, west of Greenwich) rather than 4 hours ahead of UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) (east of Greenwich).

Here is a list all valid timezones

You can change time zone in your settings.py as follows

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Kolkata'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True