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diff --git a/docs/settings.txt b/docs/settings.txt index 5b75e29172..e72cc9fdd0 100644 --- a/docs/settings.txt +++ b/docs/settings.txt @@ -760,6 +760,13 @@ Note that this is the time zone to which Django will convert all dates/times -- not necessarily the timezone of the server. For example, one server may serve multiple Django-powered sites, each with a separate time-zone setting. +Normally, Django will set the ``os.environ['TZ']`` variable to the timezone +you specify in this variable. All your views and models will therefore +automatically operate in the correct timezone. However, if you are using the +manual configuration option (see below), the environment variable will not be +touched and it is up to you to ensure your processes are running in the +correct environment. + USE_ETAGS --------- @@ -837,6 +844,15 @@ uppercase, with the same name as the settings described above. If a particular setting is not passed to ``configure()`` and is needed at some later point, Django will use the default setting value. +Configuring Django in this fashion is mostly necessary -- and, indeed, +recommended -- when you are using a piece of the Django framework inside a +larger application. Consequently, when configured via +``settings.configure()``, Django will not make any modifications to the +process environment (see the explanation of ``TIME_ZONE``, above, for why this +would normally occur). It is assumed that you are already in full control of +your environment in these cases and have configured your environment as +required in some other fashion. + Custom default settings ----------------------- |