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Devin B.
Devin B.

Reputation: 453

Remove extra characters from DateField in Django Admin form

I'm trying to have the DateField (created_at/updated_at) I have set up to be a readonly field that I can access through both the list_display and the form for adding in Django Admin. The way I have it set up it's showing as:

%09/%24/%2018

I know it's pulling from DATE_FORMAT in settings.py:

DATE_FORMAT = '%m/%d/%Y'

I just haven't figured out how to remove the % before it is displayed in Admin. Is there a way to clean this up? I've tried already to access the created_at/updated_at fields to write an algorithm to remove the extra characters, but can't seem to extract the values.

Here is my code if that helps. Thanks in advance!

admin.py

class BatchForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Batch
        fields = '__all__'

class BatchAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    form = BatchForm
    readonly_fields = ('created_at', 'updated_at')
    list_display = ('item', 'active',  'desc', 'quantity', 'created_at', 'updated_at')

models.py

class Batch(models.Model):
    created_at      = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated_at      = models.DateField(auto_now=True)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 115

Answers (1)

CoolestNerdIII
CoolestNerdIII

Reputation: 780

Based on the documentation, for the DATE_FORMAT, you do not need to put the %. So you would actually want to simply put DATE_FORMAT = 'm/d/Y'

Upvotes: 1

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