title: Django not using local machine time
body: <p>I will preface my question by saying that I have found a work around and am more interested in the why Django is doing what it is doing. I am new to Django and am using it within a virtual environment. When I call a simple datetime.now() the result is in UTC and not my machine's local time. I believe this is the behavior on Linux and Macs while PCs will return the machine local time. In other python based frameworks I have used in a virtual environment the machine local time is returned. As I said, just curious as to why Django is doing what it is doing. </p>