Django-rest-framework timezone aware renderers/parsers

Question

I\'m building an app that would serve people located in different places arround the world.
I\'m using Django-Rest-Framwork for the communication between the clients and

Answer 1

I had the same problem and solved it by adding new type of field:

class DateTimeTzAwareField(serializers.DateTimeField):

    def to_native(self, value):
        value = timezone.localtime(value)
        return super(DateTimeTzAwareField, self).to_native(value)

and now you can use it in ModelSerializer:

class XSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    start = DateTimeTzAwareField()
    end = DateTimeTzAwareField()

    class Meta:
        model = XModel
        fields = (
             'id',
             'start',
             'end',
        )