How get date format in Django template

Question

I am new to django. In my template I need the current date as date format, while the following code returns string:

<p>{% now "Y-m-d" as date %}</p>

where I want the date in format of 2018-12-17 as a date not string. Is there anyway to do that?

thnaks

Answer 1

You can use filters built into django

{{ value|date:"D d M Y" }}

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