diff --git a/django/utils/timezone.py b/django/utils/timezone.py
index c29cdf76843..35bf297358b 100644
--- a/django/utils/timezone.py
+++ b/django/utils/timezone.py
@@ -267,5 +267,5 @@ def make_naive(value, timezone):
     value = value.astimezone(timezone)
     if hasattr(timezone, 'normalize'):
         # available for pytz time zones
-        return timezone.normalize(value)
+        value = timezone.normalize(value)
     return value.replace(tzinfo=None)
diff --git a/tests/modeltests/timezones/tests.py b/tests/modeltests/timezones/tests.py
index cbfa0d8e74e..b46aa0ed8c3 100644
--- a/tests/modeltests/timezones/tests.py
+++ b/tests/modeltests/timezones/tests.py
@@ -953,3 +953,30 @@ class AdminTests(BaseDateTimeTests):
         self.assertContains(response, t.created.astimezone(ICT).isoformat())
 
 AdminTests = override_settings(DATETIME_FORMAT='c', USE_L10N=False, USE_TZ=True)(AdminTests)
+
+
+class UtilitiesTests(BaseDateTimeTests):
+
+    def test_make_aware(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            timezone.make_aware(datetime.datetime(2011, 9, 1, 13, 20, 30), EAT),
+            datetime.datetime(2011, 9, 1, 13, 20, 30, tzinfo=EAT)
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            timezone.make_aware(datetime.datetime(2011, 9, 1, 10, 20, 30), UTC),
+            datetime.datetime(2011, 9, 1, 10, 20, 30, tzinfo=UTC)
+        )
+
+    def test_make_naive(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            timezone.make_naive(datetime.datetime(2011, 9, 1, 13, 20, 30, tzinfo=EAT), EAT),
+            datetime.datetime(2011, 9, 1, 13, 20, 30)
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            timezone.make_naive(datetime.datetime(2011, 9, 1, 13, 20, 30, tzinfo=EAT), UTC),
+            datetime.datetime(2011, 9, 1, 10, 20, 30)
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            timezone.make_naive(datetime.datetime(2011, 9, 1, 10, 20, 30, tzinfo=UTC), UTC),
+            datetime.datetime(2011, 9, 1, 10, 20, 30)
+        )