Change time format in Django Views

Question

importdatetime

in my django views to save the time in database

and

now = datetime.datetime.now()

when i am saving its value in database it returns something like

2013-04-28 22:54:30.223113

how can i remove

223113 from 2013-04-28 22:54:30.223113

part please suggest how can i do this ...

Answer 1

You should ideally be using datetime field in your database. But if there is a constraint that you go to store date as a string use this to format it :

>>> datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") 
'2013-04-29 12:17:55'