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Reputation: 2672

multilingual formatting of date and time in django

In a multilingual Django project, I want to display datefields in different formats, depending on the localization. Inspired by the example given in the Django documentation on Translation, I would like to use something like

def my_view(request, my_date):
    output = _('Today is %(month)s %(day)s.') % {'month': my_date.month(), 
                                                 'day': my_date.day()}
    return HttpResponse(output)

where my_date is a DateField. Unfortunately, this object does not have day() and month() methods to extract the dates.

In a related question, one respondent suggests the babel module, but then I would have to specify the locale explicitly in the view, which seems like a bad idea to me.

What is the easiest way to present dates on multilingual Django sites?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 195

Answers (1)

falsetru
falsetru

Reputation: 369074

DateField is represented in Python by a datetime.date instance.

datetime.date objects have month and day attributes. (They are not methods.)

So you can write your view as:

def my_view(request, my_date):
    output = _('Today is %(month)s %(day)s.') % {'month': my_date.month, 
                                                 'day': my_date.day}
    return HttpResponse(output)

Upvotes: 1

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