I have file locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo (and .po), ran makemessages and compilemessages. Definitely all messages are translated
in settings.py have:
I use this in my settings :
TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Paris' LANGUAGE_CODE = 'fr-FR' SITE_ID = 1 USE_I18N = True
So you should use something like 'es-ES'