Datetime.datetime.now() is five minutes off
I'm currently developing a django backend. I use auto_now_add=True in my model to populate a start point on create(). I use datetime.datetime.now() to add an endpoint on update(). The entire code for that is datetime.datetime.now().replace(tzinfo=pytz.timezone(settings.TIME_ZONE).
Here's an example for an instance that was created at 2023-01-21T19:26:04.561888Z and updated only seconds later.
As you can see, the endpoint populated on update() is somehow before the startpoint, which is not intended behavior.
Thank you
I managed to get it to work by using timezone.now() from django.utils.timezone. It still uses pytz in the background but it seems to be working. It's the same function auto_add_now uses.