what is the right way in django timezone setting

Question

I just followed instructions on django website https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/class-based-views/generic-date-based/ and TodayArchiveView was showing the date for the next day.

my setting TIME_ZONE = 'UTC' and I changed it to TIME_ZONE = 'America/Los_Angeles' and TodayArchiveView worked but is this the right way? what if a user is in europe will he get the right time zone?

Answer 1

Your user will not see right time zone, because Django doesn't have a way to get user timezone as far as I know and it was also stated, here see accepted answer. You have three choices to get this right:

1. Get user timezone with some javascript, take a look at this answer
2. Get user timezone with some geolocation method, like django-easy-timezones
3. Ask user for his timezone and save it in his profile, then you can activate user timezone in view