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Reputation: 4155

Django DATE_FORMAT in settings.py ignoring formatting or being overwritten

I am trying to change the format of SelectDateWidget I have followed the steps in this question including setting USE_L10N to False I have also looked at the list of acceptable format strings and tried multiple combinations.

The issue is that no matter how I format the string the "Year" drop down is always on the left when I want it on the right. It also always formats to 4 digits even if I specify 2. I am however able to remove it altogether by simply not specifying it.

Can anyone tell me how to format the date in "Day : Moth Year"?

I am using Django 1.6.2

settings.py

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Dublin'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = False
USE_TZ = True

These are some of the formats I have tried and the outcome. Month(long) = "January" etc.

DATE_FORMAT = 'j N, Y'    # Year(4 digit) : Month(long) : Day
DATE_FORMAT = 'j N, y'    # Year(4 digit) : Month(long) : Day
DATE_FORMAT = 'j N'       # Month(long) : Day
DATE_FORMAT = 'N j, Y'    # Year(4 digit) : Day : Month(long)
DATE_FORMAT = 'N j, y'    # Year(4 digit) : Day : Month(long)
DATE_FORMAT = 'N j'       # Day : Month(long)
DATE_FORMAT = 'N, j, Y'   # Year(4 digit) : Day : Month(long)
DATE_FORMAT = 'd, F, Y'   # Year(4 digit) : Month(long) : Day
DATE_FORMAT = 'd, F, y'   # Year(4 digit) : Month(long) : Day

I am trying to render birthdate below which is part of my Person Model created using ModelForm

models.py

class Person(models.Model):

    birthdate = models.DateField(null=True, blank=True) #overwritten in forms.py

forms.py

from django.forms import ModelForm
from django.forms.extras import SelectDateWidget

class SurveyFormA(forms.ModelForm):

    birthdate = forms.DateField(widget=extras.SelectDateWidget(), required=False)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1791

Answers (1)

Julien Grégoire
Julien Grégoire

Reputation: 17144

SelectDateWidget will use DATE_FORMAT, but only for the order of year, months and days, nothing more. You can see in the widget code itself that it doesn't distinguish between y and Y or b and F, etc.:

        elif char in 'Yy':
            output.append('year')
            #if not self.first_select: self.first_select = 'year'
        elif char in 'bEFMmNn':
            output.append('month')
            #if not self.first_select: self.first_select = 'month'
        elif char in 'dj':
            output.append('day')
            #if not self.first_select: self.first_select = 'day'

But what's strange in your case is that the parsing seems to be working, but is displayed in reverse. j N, Y should give you the opposite of what you get. So, one thing you should try is put your DATE_FORMAT in reverse. Like this for example:

DATE_FORMAT = 'YNj'

That being said, you should maybe have a look at your HTML, probably something in the styling that causes this. A float: right somewhere maybe?

As for the 2 digits year, you can pass an argument for the years you want displayed. This can be a list/tuple. See:

Takes one optional argument:

years

An optional list/tuple of years to use in the “year” select box. The default is a list containing the current year and the next 9 years.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/forms/widgets/

Like this:

birthdate = forms.DateField(widget=extras.SelectDateWidget(years=('15','16','17','18','19')), required=False)

Upvotes: 2

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