I want to change the format of the Date in my Django project.
Now it looks like this: "June 3, 2018, 2:19 p.m.", and I want something like: "23,Oct 2018 - 18H23m".
The model that I have its setting this time:
date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
How can I format the date to the way I want? Are there any other parameters that allow me to do this?
I have just started working with django 2 days ago.
I tried to search around but didnt find any answer.
strftime() allows you to format datetimes as you like for printing etc:
import datetime
today = datetime.datetime.today()
print(today.strftime("%d, %b %Y - %HH%Mm"))
>>> 03, Jun 2018 - 16H54m
Try these following formats with strftime() that returns a string representing the date, controlled by an explicit format string of python. For a complete list of formatting directives: see this section
date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
>>> date.strftime("%d %b, %Y - %Ih%Mm%S %p") # With AM PM
>>> '03 Jun, 2018 - 12h02m49s PM'
>>> date.strftime("%d %b, %Y - %Hh%Mm")
>>> '03 Jun, 2018 - 12h04m'
You can use DATETIME_FORMAT = "d M Y H:i:s" in your settings to change the display format.
