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I have a datetime object. This is my template file:
<ul>
<li>{{ sale.validity }}</li>
</ul>
and the output i'm getting is in the format:
July 18, 2012, midnight
I would really like to change the output to be numerical in the format: day-month-year so for example the above would be changed to:
18-07-2012
Can someone point me out to the right direction on this?
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DATETIME_FORMAT="%Y-%m-%d%H:%M:%S"
The simplest approach to define or retrieve the date in Django is to use python's DateTime module. This datetime module contains many different classes that can be used to manipulate date values. To generate or fetch dates, we use the date class.
If you want to be able to modify this field, set the following instead of auto_now_add=True : For DateField : default=date.today - from datetime.date.today() For DateTimeField : default=timezone.now - from django.utils.timezone.now()
Use datetime. strftime(format) to convert a datetime object into a string as per the corresponding format . The format codes are standard directives for mentioning in which format you want to represent datetime. For example, the %d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S codes convert date to dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss format.
Per Django docs, you can use a date filter to format date:
{{ sale.validity|date:"d-m-Y"}}
Additionally, you can also set DATE_FORMAT (or DATETIME_FORMAT) setting to set a project-wide default for displaying such values if USE_L10N is False. If it's true, you'll want to have a look at this documentation on format localization.
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