ValueError: Incorrect timezone setting while migrating manage.py file in Django

Question

I am following the Django official documentation for writing my first app using Django.

Here, it says that I have to set TIME_ZONE to my time zone in the settings.py file.

The default value of TIME_ZONE was "utc" and i have changed it to "utc+6.00".

After this edit, when I try to migrate the manage.py file:

python manage.py migrate

A value error occurred:

ValueError: Incorrect timezone setting: UTC+6.00

I am sorry, if this is a very basic question, but I couldn't figure out the solution after hours of search in Google.

N.B:

My time zone is Asia/Dhaka (+6:00)

My OS is Ubuntu 14.10

Answer 1

According to the documentation:

TIME_ZONE

Default: 'America/Chicago'

A string representing the time zone for this installation, or None.

Instead of utc+6.00, set the TIME_ZONE to Asia/Dhaka:

TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Dhaka'

Answer 2

In simple words you need to choose your timezone from this list

Answer 3

Cygwin: install "tzdata" package

I'm running MobaXterm (a Cygwin flavor) and so my /usr/share/zoneinfo directory was empty.

And then Django wouldn't start properly.

I fixed this by installing the tzdata package.

That populated the zoneinfo directory nicely...

$ tree /usr/share/zoneinfo | head
/usr/share/zoneinfo
├── Africa
│   ├── Abidjan
│   ├── Accra
│   ├── Addis_Ababa
│   ├── Algiers
│   ├── Asmara
│   ├── Asmera
│   ├── Bamako
│   ├── Bangui

...and then Django started up fine.