Fixed #17580 -- Made sure datetime.date instances are correctly handled when being passed to a DateTimeField fields and the timezone support is enabled by making it aware using the default timezone.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@17392 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

tests/modeltests/timezones/tests.py

@@ -261,6 +261,13 @@ class NewDatabaseTests(BaseDateTimeTests):
         # naive datetimes are interpreted in local time
         self.assertEqual(event.dt, dt.replace(tzinfo=EAT))
 
+    @requires_tz_support
+    def test_datetime_from_date(self):
+        dt = datetime.date(2011, 9, 1)
+        Event.objects.create(dt=dt)
+        event = Event.objects.get()
+        self.assertEqual(event.dt, datetime.datetime(2011, 9, 1, tzinfo=EAT))
+
     @requires_tz_support
     @skipIf(sys.version_info < (2, 6), "this test requires Python >= 2.6")
     @skipUnlessDBFeature('supports_microsecond_precision')