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DJango Queryset comparing date time

Good day to all developers. Today encountered this issue where I do a simple queryset in DJango and hit with the following warning message:   RuntimeWarning: DateTimeField MessageContent.send_time received a naive datetime (2014-05-14 04:46:30.392000) while time zone support is active. How is this happen? This is due to I do the following datetime comparison in my queryset: import datetime Item.objects.filter(created = datetime.datetime.now()) The error is due to TIME_ZONE (in settings.py) is enabled by default. So the solution for this is pretty simple: 1) Either to set the TIME_ZONE to False in settings.py ( this will take away the timezone capability of your application) 2) or by comparing to timezone enabled datetime which the code as below: import datetime from django.utils.timezone import utc now = datetime.datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=utc) Item.objects.filter(created = now) With this, the problem has been solved. More informati...