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Piero Pajares
Asked: 2020-03-25 06:08:04 +0800 CST 2020-03-25 06:08:04 +0800 CST

Timezone works locally, but not in pythonanywhere (DJango)

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I have a queryset that lists all sales for today:

from django.utils import timezone

class VentaToday(ListView):
    queryset = Venta.objects.filter(fecha=timezone.now()).order_by('-id')
    template_name = 'venta/venta_today.html'

In local, this works fine but in production (Pythonanywhere) the sales from the previous day still appear. To solve it, I have to go to the pythonanywhere panel and click the **reload** button to solve the problem, that is, refresh the page and there just the sales from the previous day disappear.

I have tried changing the server time:

server time

And this is the configuration of my settings.py

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'es-pe'

TIME_ZONE = 'America/Lima'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True

Is it a cache problem on the server? or am I doing something wrong? since that problem does not happen to me locally.

django

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Fixed: First I had to download pytz since the server changes the time zone when doing a maintenance.

    pip install pytz

    Then passing the 12 still didn't update the list... so I had to replace my queryset and return the list with the pytz filter:

    from datetime import datetime
import pytz

class VentaToday(ListView):
    def get_queryset(self):
        return Venta.objects.filter(fecha=datetime.now(pytz.timezone('America/Lima'))).order_by('-id')
    template_name = 'venta/venta_today.html'

    Now passing 12AM restart sales again! I hope this helps someone if something similar happens to them.

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