id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
12970	"Allow ""None"" for conf.TIME_ZONE to avoid calling tzset()"	philz42	nobody	"Django defaults (I believe) to Chicago time.  It often makes sense to set the time zone explicitly, but, in many applications, the system timezone (typically handled by /etc/localtime magic) is just fine.  I'd like to propose that

{{{
        if hasattr(time, 'tzset'):
            # Move the time zone info into os.environ. See ticket #2315 for why
            # we don't do this unconditionally (breaks Windows).
            os.environ['TZ'] = self.TIME_ZONE
            time.tzset()
}}}

be changed to start

{{{
if self.TIME_ZONE is not None and hasattr(time, 'tzset'):
...
}}}

That way, if you explicitly set TIME_ZONE to None (this could be the default or not; doesn't matter to me), the system default will get used.

Thoughts?"		closed	Uncategorized	1.1		duplicate			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0