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diff --git a/docs/ref/databases.txt b/docs/ref/databases.txt index 4426e28c75..ca909fcd04 100644 --- a/docs/ref/databases.txt +++ b/docs/ref/databases.txt @@ -500,6 +500,15 @@ respectively, a ``ValueError`` is raised rather than truncating data. MySQL does not store fractions of seconds. Fractions of seconds are truncated to zero when the time is stored. +``TIMESTAMP`` columns +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +If you are using a legacy database that contains ``TIMESTAMP`` columns, you must +set :setting:`USE_TZ = False <USE_TZ>` to avoid data corruption. +:djadmin:`inspectdb` maps these columns to +:class:`~django.db.models.DateTimeField` and if you enable timezone support, +both MySQL and Django will attempt to convert the values from UTC to local time. + Row locking with ``QuerySet.select_for_update()`` ------------------------------------------------- |