A Django app providing database and form fields for pytz timezone objects.

import pytz
from django.db import models
from timezone_field import TimeZoneField

class MyModel(models.Model):
    timezone1 = TimeZoneField(default='Europe/London') # defaults supported
    timezone2 = TimeZoneField()
    timezone3 = TimeZoneField()

my_inst = MyModel(
    timezone1='America/Los_Angeles',    # assignment of a string
    timezone2=pytz.timezone('Turkey'),  # assignment of a pytz.DstTzInfo
    timezone3=pytz.UTC,                 # assignment of pytz.UTC singleton
)
my_inst.full_clean()  # validates against pytz.common_timezones
my_inst.save()        # values stored in DB as strings

tz = my_inst.timezone1  # values retrieved as pytz objects
repr(tz)                # "<DstTzInfo 'America/Los_Angeles' PST-1 day, 16:00:00 STD>"

from django import forms
from timezone_field import TimeZoneFormField

class MyForm(forms.Form):
    timezone = TimeZoneFormField()

my_form = MyForm({
    'timezone': 'America/Los_Angeles',
})
my_form.full_clean()  # validates against pytz.common_timezones

tz = my_form.cleaned_data['timezone']  # values retrieved as pytz objects
repr(tz)                               # "<DstTzInfo 'America/Los_Angeles' PST-1 day, 16:00:00 STD>"

1. From pypi using pip:

   pip install django-timezone-field

2. Add timezone_field to your settings.INSTALLED_APPS:

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'timezone_field',
       ...
   )

• 2.0 (2016-01-31)
  • Drop support for django 1.7, add support for django 1.9
  • Drop support for python 3.2, 3.3, add support for python 3.5
  • Remove tests from source distribution
• 1.3 (2015-10-12)
  • Drop support for django 1.6, add support for django 1.8
  • Various bug fixes
• 1.2 (2015-02-05)
  • For form field, changed default list of accepted timezones from pytz.all_timezones to pytz.common_timezones, to match DB field behavior.
• 1.1 (2014-10-05)
  • Django 1.7 compatibility
  • Added support for formating choices kwarg as [[<str>, <str>], ...], in addition to previous format of [[<pytz.timezone>, <str>], ...].
  • Changed default list of accepted timezones from pytz.all_timezones to pytz.common_timezones. If you have timezones in your DB that are in pytz.all_timezones but not in pytz.common_timezones, this is a backward-incompatible change. Old behavior can be restored by specifying choices=[(tz, tz) for tz in pytz.all_timezones] in your model definition.
• 1.0 (2013-08-04)
  • Initial release as timezone_field.

1. Install tox.

2. From the repository root, run

   tox

   Postgres will need to be running locally, and sqlite will need to be installed in order for tox to do its job.

To file a bug or submit a patch, please head over to django-timezone-field on github.

Originally adapted from Brian Rosner's django-timezones. The full list of contributors is available on github.