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Ryan Oh
Ryan Oh

Reputation: 657

How do I input current date and time in Django?

So I'm a beginner in Django, and recently came up with a question, regarding datetime.

So I'm trying to make a blog-like page. And among the input fields, including title and contents, I want a datetime field as well. However, there is an additional feature that I want to create, which is -- if the user clicks a checkbox right next to the datetime input field, the datetime will automatically change into the CURRENT date and time. So the input field is replaced with the current date and time.

I have no idea on how to create the feature.
I would very much appreciate your help :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 59

Answers (1)

Ambitions
Ambitions

Reputation: 2581

It will be better if you make this behavior to be set automatically to the time of creating the post for the first time, it will not be triggered if you modify the post:

created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

If you want to set it to the current time when you modify the post:

modified_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

Upvotes: 1

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