Sorry for the delay in response - was on vacation for a few days. After reading up more on naive and aware timezones in python, this all makes more sense now. Thanks for your pointers, they were helpful.
Margie On Sep 4, 9:03 am, Brian Neal <bgn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 4, 10:47 am, Margie <margierogin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > Can someone clarify what format dates and times are stored in when > > using just a standard DateTimeField? Is mytimezoneencoded in the > > database or is some generic, non-timezone-specific date/time stored? > > There is notimezoneencoded. The dates/times are said to be "naive". > > It is up to you to assign meaning to the time and to convert to the > appropriatetimezonefor your users. > > You should probably review this: > > http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html > > Regards, > BN > > PS. The pytz library is useful for performing conversions between > timezones.http://pytz.sourceforge.net/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---