python - datetime.now() returns wrong day in Django application -

my django application (nginx, uwsgi stack) requests current day calling datetime.now():

def get_drinks(request, drink_type):     current_day = datetime.today().strftime("%w")     current_day_string = datetime.today().strftime("%a") 

and show current day on website. bizarre reason, returning friday, instead of thursday (today). server time is:

server:~$ date thu apr  9 18:51:02 pdt 2015 

and when run datetime.now() in python shell, thursday well:

>>> import datetime >>> datetime.datetime.today().strftime("%a") 'thursday' 

what's issue here?

datetime.datetime.now() not aware of timezone gets current time in system's local timezone. should set time_zone america/los_angeles (pst/pdt) , use_tz true in settings.py file date values created within application timezone aware long import django.utils.timezone.

please see timezone documentation more information.

time_zone = "america/los_angeles" use_tz = true 

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>>> django.utils import timezone  >>> print timezone.now() datetime.datetime(2015, 4, 10, 2, 17, 10, 839067, tzinfo=<utc>)  >>> print timezone.localtime(timezone.now()) datetime.datetime(2015, 4, 9, 19, 17, 10, 839067, tzinfo=<dsttzinfo 'america/los_angeles' pdt-1 day, 17:00:00 dst>)