Re: Consider reopening ticket #11385

2014-01-08 Thread Marc Tamlyn
I'm a little unsure whether that argument continues to hold about users writing times and dates. I don't know of that many sites which don't use a datepicker of some description at least for dates, and even the admin has some client side help for picking times. It seems reasonable that one field

Re: Consider reopening ticket #11385

2014-01-07 Thread Aymeric Augustin
Django’s DateTimeField parsing code is really targeted at values typed by humans. It doesn’t handle time zones because humans don’t tend to write them down :) Wouldn’t it be easier to write an ISODateTimeField? It could take advantage of django.utils.dateparse.parse_datetime, which parses an

Consider reopening ticket #11385

2014-01-07 Thread Andres Osinski
Hi everyone, I wanted to bring up a request: Ticket #11385 dealt with Django's DateTimeField being unable to handle ISO 8601 date formats. At the time it seemed reasonable to not support this feature given, however, given the proliferation of web service APIs that return dates using this format,