Incorrect documentation on using timezones and session in 1.6

[filipp]

The 1.6 documentation on using Time zones (​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/i18n/timezones/) says it's OK to do this:

request.session['django_timezone'] = pytz.timezone(request.POST['timezone'])

However that does not work since 1.6 with the default session serializer (serializers.JSONSerializer), resulting instead in a crash (TypeError), similar to this:

<DstTzInfo 'Europe/Stockholm' CET+1:00:00 STD> is not JSON serializable

Would be nice if the 1.6 documentation was be updated to say how this should be done since 1.6.

[Baptiste Mispelon]

Yes, it should either be noted that the code only works with a non-default session serializer or better yet, fix the code so that it works with any session serializer.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Just store the time zone name instead of the tzinfo object.

[Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@…>]

In 1eddca0a5202993dbb3f437ccb74095f6647b825:

[1.6.x] Fixed #21487 -- Session cannot store tzinfo instances anymore.

Thanks filipp for the report.

[Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@…>]

In 9f8810ac51afe7eda276ca54a46cb49fb23c1d5a:

Fixed #21487 -- Session cannot store tzinfo instances anymore.

Thanks filipp for the report.

Forward-port of 1eddca0a from stable/1.6.x.

[filipp]

Thanks! :)