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Updated docs to use cookie-based storage for timezone handling

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Changed docs example from session-based to cookie-based storage for user timezone preferences, aligned with Django 4.0 which deprecated sessions for  language i18n settings.
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Rob McCombie 2023-09-24 15:10:41 +01:00
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@ -857,6 +857,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
Robert Wittams
Rob Golding-Day <rob@golding-day.com>
Rob Hudson <https://rob.cogit8.org/>
Rob McCombie
Rob Nguyen <tienrobertnguyenn@gmail.com>
Robin Munn <http://www.geekforgod.com/>
Rodrigo Pinheiro Marques de Araújo <fenrrir@gmail.com>

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docs/topics/i18n/timezones.txt
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@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ the time zone of their primary audience or UTC.
:func:`zoneinfo.available_timezones` provides a set of available timezones that
you can use to build a map from likely locations to time zones.
Here's an example that stores the current timezone in the session. (It skips
Here's an example that stores the current timezone in cookies. (It skips
error handling entirely for the sake of simplicity.)
Add the following middleware to :setting:`MIDDLEWARE`::
@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Add the following middleware to :setting:`MIDDLEWARE`::
self.get_response = get_response
def __call__(self, request):
tzname = request.session.get("django_timezone")
tzname = request.COOKIES.get("django_timezone")
if tzname:
timezone.activate(zoneinfo.ZoneInfo(tzname))
else:
@ -191,11 +191,11 @@ Create a view that can set the current timezone::
def set_timezone(request):
response = render(request, "template.html", {"timezones": common_timezones})
if request.method == "POST":
request.session["django_timezone"] = request.POST["timezone"]
return redirect("/")
else:
return render(request, "template.html", {"timezones": common_timezones})
tzname = request.POST["timezone"]
response.set_cookie("django_timezone", tzname)
return response
Include a form in ``template.html`` that will ``POST`` to this view: