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Updated time zone FAQ with timezone.localize.
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aaugustin committed May 6, 2012
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documentation of pytz contains `more examples`_. You should review it
before attempting to manipulate aware datetimes.

2. **How can I obtain the current time in the local time zone?**
2. **How can I obtain the local time in the current time zone?**

Well, the first question is, do you really need to?

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the datetime in UTC returned by :func:`django.utils.timezone.now` will be
sufficient.

For the sake of completeness, though, if you really wanted the current time
in the local time zone, here's how you would obtain it::
For the sake of completeness, though, if you really want the local time
in the current time zone, here's how you can obtain it::

>>> import datetime
>>> from django.utils import timezone
>>> datetime.datetime.now(tz=timezone.get_default_timezone())
>>> timezone.localtime(timezone.now())
datetime.datetime(2012, 3, 3, 20, 10, 53, 873365, tzinfo=<DstTzInfo 'Europe/Paris' CET+1:00:00 STD>)

In this example, pytz_ is installed and :setting:`TIME_ZONE` is
In this example, pytz_ is installed and the current time zone is
``"Europe/Paris"``.

3. **How can I see all available time zones?**
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