[Answered ]-Django template tag, python timezone aware dates different results

Use the Django template defaultfilters to format your dates in Python code.

from django.template.defaultfilters import date as _date

_date(datetime_object, "%H:%M")

And, maybe related: Django cannot reliably use alternate time zones in a Windows. See documentation.

I don’t think Turkey has anything to do with it.

My guess is that the one-hour difference you’re seeing is between the Paris timezone—which is being used, by default, to interpret and display dates—and UTC—which is being used to store the datetime, and which is the timezone of the datetime returned from the database.

If that’s correct, then you can just use django.utils.timezone.localtime to convert the datetime to the current time zone (which by default will be TIME_ZONE):

localtime(beginning_date).strftime("%H:%M")