Today I submitted a package to PyPi called django-datetime-utc. You can install it via Pip:

$ pip install django-datetime-utc

This package provides DateTimeUTCField, a naive datetime model field. In PostgreSQL this translates to the field timestamp without time zone. All timestamps are saved in UTC.

I created this because the problem with using Django's DateTimeField is unless the default time zone on your (PostgreSQL) database server is set to UTC it doesn't matter which TZ settings you select in Django, PostgreSQL will save all timestamps in local time with an offset.

This new field:

• Supports the default DateTimeField options such as auto_now_add and auto_now
• Works with South
• Saves all timestamps in UTC
• Values automatically converted to local time (specified by TIME_ZONE in your project settings.py) in forms and templates

To find out more head over to the project pages on GitHub and PyPi where the latest installation and usage instructions can be found.