From 348c89cbfbe3b9be6e759d8d5696d4fde1827d9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:11:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #19312 -- Documented MySQL TIMESTAMP columns cannot be used with USE_TZ=True. --- docs/ref/databases.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) 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()`` -------------------------------------------------