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 24281 Improve docs for auto_now & auto_now_add and timezone handling djbug Chris Luc " `auto_now` & `auto_now_add` ignore TIME_ZONE / USE_TZ settings for `DateField` https://github.com/django/django/blob/1.7/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py#L1146 {{{ def pre_save(self, model_instance, add): if self.auto_now or (self.auto_now_add and add): value = datetime.date.today() setattr(model_instance, self.attname, value) return value else: return super(DateField, self).pre_save(model_instance, add) }}} Instead of `datetime.date.today()`, this should use `timezone.now().date()`. " Cleanup/optimization closed Documentation dev Normal fixed timezone Accepted 0 0 0 0 0 0