A min function in query set Django to find the earlier date in a model?

Question

I have a model that where each entry has a date. How do I use queryset to find the entry with the earliest date? This is not dependent on 'pk' because I could add a row with an earlier date at a later time.

This is what I have so far and it doesn't seem to work:

Model.objects.get(min(date))

Thanks.

Answer 1

Model.objects.earliest('date')

Answer 2

earliest = Model.objects.order_by('date')[0]

You need to handle the case where there's no objects in Model though.