Updated timezone docs to use timezone.now()

Thanks James Cleveland for the report and Aymeric for suggesting
the solution.
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Tim Graham 2014-07-31 12:54:11 -04:00
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commit da59902250
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@ -78,20 +78,13 @@ the current time, you would write::
now = datetime.datetime.now()
When time zone support is enabled, Django uses time-zone-aware datetime
objects. If your code creates datetime objects, they should be aware too. In
this mode, the example above becomes::
When time zone support is enabled (:setting:`USE_TZ=True <USE_TZ>`), Django uses
time-zone-aware datetime objects. If your code creates datetime objects, they
should be aware too. In this mode, the example above becomes::
import datetime
from django.utils.timezone import utc
from django.utils import timezone
now = datetime.datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=utc)
.. note::
:mod:`django.utils.timezone` provides a
:func:`~django.utils.timezone.now()` function that returns a naive or
aware datetime object according to the value of :setting:`USE_TZ`.
now = timezone.now()
.. warning::
@ -554,7 +547,7 @@ Troubleshooting
>>> import datetime
>>> from django.utils import timezone
>>> naive = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
>>> aware = naive.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
>>> aware = timezone.now()
>>> naive == aware
Traceback (most recent call last):
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