Django app incorrect datetime during deployment-CodePudding

I have a django model with a datetime field like this:

date_creation = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True)

Locally, on my machine, this control is created with the local date and time.
When the application is deployed the field is not created with local time.
I tried to do this:

date_creation = models.DateField(default=datetime.now())

It does not work. How to solve this problem ? I am in central Africa

CodePudding user response：

You should pass a callable, so you can pass the now function, or better the now function of Django's timezone utility:

from datetime import datetime

class MyModel(models.Model):
    date_creation = models.DateField(default=datetime.now)

or with timezone.now(…) [Django-doc]:

from django.utils.timezone import now

class MyModel(models.Model):
    date_creation = models.DateField(default=now)

Probably it is however better to specify the timezone in the settings with:

# settings.py

USE_TZ = True
TIME_ZONE = 'Africa/Bangui'