import pytz from django.utils import timezone class TimezoneMiddleware(object): """ Middleware to get user's timezone and activate timezone if user timezone is not available default value 'Asia/Kolkata' is activated """ def process_request(self, request): user = request.user user_tz = 'Asia/Kolkata' if hasattr(user, 'profile'): if user.profile.timezone: user_tz = user.profile.timezone timezone.activate(pytz.timezone(user_tz))