I thought that Django created datetime columns that were time zone
agnostic, but when I looked at my Postgres table I saw that the values
recorded there have time zone information.
Going further I found that the Postgres backend directs Django to create
columns that use time zones.
>From django/db/backends/postgresql/creation.py:
data_types = {
...
'DateTimeField': 'timestamp with time zone',
...
The schema shows that the created column is specified as "timestamp with
time zone".
CREATE TABLE notification_notice
(
...
created timestamp with time zone NOT NULL,
...
The Postgres log shows the update statement that was sent. Django
constructed a SQL statement that used UTC as the time zone as directed by
my Django settings file.
UPDATE "notification_notice" SET "sender_id" = 1, "group_id" = NULL,
"notice_type_id" = 1, "content_type_id" = 21, "object_id" = 3, "created" =
E'2011-11-11 22:31:08.022148' WHERE "notification_notice"."id" = 14
This is what my table looks like. The created column has a timestame that
has "-08" for its time zone. Postgres must be inspecting the time zone of
my system clock to find the time zone.
my_db=# select * from notification_notice limit 1;
id | sender_id | group_id | notice_type_id | content_type_id |
object_id | created | last_interaction_time
----+-----------+----------+----------------+-----------------+-----------+------------------------------+-----------------------
1 | | 3 | 21 | 53 |
6 | 2011-11-11 14:31:02.98882-08 |
(1 row)
Questions:
Doesn't Django have a hands off policy to time zones?
Why does the Postgres backend use time zones for models.DateTimeField? Is
this required by Postgres?
Is there a way to force Django to create timestamp columns in Postgres that
don't use the time zone?
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