pytz and astimezone() cannot be applied to a naive datetime

Question

I have a date and I need to make it time zone aware.

local_tz = timezone(\'Asia/Tokyo\')
start_date = \'2012-09-27\'
start_date = datetime.strptime(start_dat         


        

Answer 1

If you are using Django Rest Framework you could override the DateTimeField class like:

class DateTimeFieldOverridden(serializers.DateTimeField):

def to_representation(self, value):
    local_tz = pytz.timezone(TIME_ZONE)
    value = local_tz.localize(value)
    return super(DateTimeFieldOverridden, self).to_representation(value)

And you use it like this in your serializer:

date_time = DateTimeFieldOverridden(format='%d-%b-%Y', read_only=True)

Hope this helps someone.