You can do that in Django using a middleware. The middleware needs to generate a unique request id (e.g. using UUID) and associate that id with the request.
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Django Custom Month and Year Lookup
Everyone want to keep Django timezone support but sometimes you need to keep your SQL queries a way from timezone conversion especially if by default your application timezone is UTC. Django will do something like this CONVERT_TZ(`app_incident`.`datetime`, 'UTC', 'UTC')) and it will return Null if the timezone table is empty. Even that conversion is not even needed.
Django Custom Lookups
By default Django has a date lookup that support timezones. It actually will wrap your field with CONVERT_TZ in case USE_TZ is True. This is pretty awesome unless you have timezones table empty because this call will return Null.