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Handling Timezones Correctly

Django's timezone.now() returns an aware datetime object based on the USE_TZ setting, preventing errors when comparing times across regions.

snippet.py

python

from django.utils import timezone
 
def get_current_time():
    # Always use Django's timezone utility
    return timezone.now()

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Breakdown

from django.utils import timezone

Imports Django's utilities for time-aware calculations.

return timezone.now()

Returns the current date and time in a safe, project-aware format.