utils.timezone.now()

now() [source]

Returns a datetime that represents the current point in time. Exactly what’s returned depends on the value of USE_TZ:

• If USE_TZ is False, this will be a naive datetime (i.e. a datetime without an associated timezone) that represents the current time in the system’s local timezone.
• If USE_TZ is True, this will be an aware datetime representing the current time in UTC. Note that now() will always return times in UTC regardless of the value of TIME_ZONE; you can use localtime() to convert to a time in the current time zone.