Fixing datetime.datetime.now() Python call, or set up Django with the correct Timezone

I had a small problem where the datetime.datetime.now() call was giving me the wrong time - in my case, the time was always 1 hour behind.  It turned out that the problem had to do with my Django timezone settings.

This fix is easy, but took my a little Googling to figure out so I thought I'd document it.

To start, step into python and check if your time is sync'ed up to GMT.

$ python
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.now()
datetime.datetime(2012, 6, 25, 15, 1, 10, 95084)

If everything is ok, then head into you myproject/settings.py file and look out for the line with the parameter ...

TIME_ZONE = [your time zone]

In my case, that line looks like.

TIME_ZONE = 'America/Toronto'

And that's it.  datetime.datetime.now() now returns the right time in my Django code.