> Does anybody know how to control a form's output format of a stored
> DateField? Unfortunately, different countries use different customs to
> represent dates and I'd like to represent the date in another
> international format (%d-%m-%Y). Any help would be very much
> appreciated!
I use the following combination of formfield and widget:
as formfield:
class DateFormField(forms.DateField):
def __init__(self, input_formats=None, *args, **kwargs):
super(DateFormField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.input_formats = input_formats or
settings.DATE_INPUT_FORMATS
def clean(self, value):
super(forms.DateField, self).clean(value)
if value in forms.fields.EMPTY_VALUES:
return None
if isinstance(value, datetime.datetime):
return value.date()
if isinstance(value, datetime.date):
return value
for format in self.input_formats:
try:
y, m, d = time.strptime(value, format)[:3]
if y == 1900:
y = datetime.datetime.now().year
return datetime.date(y, m, d)
except ValueError:
continue
raise forms.util.ValidationError(self.error_messages
['invalid'])
note that I defined the input formats in my settings as
DATE_INPUT_FORMATS = (
'%d/%m/%Y', '%d/%m/%y', # '25/10/2006', '25/10/06'
'%d/%m', # '25/10'
'%Y-%m-%d', # '2006-10-25'
)
subclassing clean() allows me to enter dates without a year specified.
If you don't need this you can leave out the clean method definition.
and as widget:
class DateWidget(forms.DateTimeInput):
def __init__(self, attrs={}):
super(DateWidget, self).__init__
(format=settings.DATE_OUTPUT_FORMAT)
where my setting for the output format is:
DATE_OUTPUT_FORMAT = '%d/%m/%Y'
(to be honest my real widget also defines some media to use the jquery
datepicker)
Maybe this helps somebody,
cheers,
Koen
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