Opened 7 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

#28410 new Bug

query filter on date portion of datetime creates wrong parameters for mysql CONVERT_TZ function when used with a fixed offset timezone

Reported by: donaldinho Owned by: nobody
Component: Database layer (models, ORM) Version: 1.11
Severity: Normal Keywords: timezone date filter
Cc: Can Sarıgöl, Carlton Gibson Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description (last modified by donaldinho)

I am setting the timezone

tz = timezone.get_fixed_timezone(-300)
timezone.activate(tz)

then I apply the filter. search_date is just a string submitted by the client

matches = query.filter(startDateTime__date=datetime.strptime(search_date, '%Y-%m-%d').date())

the where clause that is produced is

DATE(CONVERT_TZ(`match`.`startDateTime`, 'UTC', '-0500')) = '2017-07-18'

where as it should be

DATE(CONVERT_TZ(match`.`startDateTime`, 'UTC', '-05:00')) = '2017-07-18'

note the colon in the timezone we are converting to.

Change History (6)

comment:1 by donaldinho, 7 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

comment:2 by Tim Graham, 7 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

I can reproduce the problem, although poking around the code left me wondering if there's a reason not to deprecate get_fixed_timezone() and FixedOffset so we don't have to handle this additional case. Is there a reason you're preferring that rather than using pytz? I didn't see an explanation of the get_fixed_timezone()'s use case in Django's documentation.

comment:3 by Tim Graham, 7 years ago

Summary: query filter on date portion of datetime creates wrong parameters for mysql CONVERT_TZ function and returns no resultsquery filter on date portion of datetime creates wrong parameters for mysql CONVERT_TZ function when used with a fixed offset timezone

comment:4 by donaldinho, 7 years ago

I think I used get_fixed_timezone because I had the clients offset provided by javascript in minutes rather than an explicit timezone and I couldn't see a way to create a tzinfo class any other way

comment:5 by Can Sarıgöl, 5 years ago

Cc: Can Sarıgöl added

In master branch, I couldn't see a problem with this query. Doesn't timedelta(hours=-5) work for your need? am I wrong?

from datetime import timedelta, timezone as datetime_timezone
tz = datetime_timezone(timedelta(hours=-5))
timezone.activate(tz)
Last edited 5 years ago by Can Sarıgöl (previous) (diff)

comment:6 by Mariusz Felisiak, 3 years ago

Cc: Carlton Gibson added
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