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RZAMarefat
RZAMarefat

Reputation: 143

The proper way of getting the value of a TimeField in Django

Imagine that in a Educational Management System I have created a form for entering the details for a ,let say, course. After I save it to the database(in my case postgres) I want to provide the user with the opportunity to edit the previously saved form. So I have to initialise a form with the initial values that user has previously entered. Everything is Alright but the problem is that I cannot format the the TIME input (let say the time that course starts) received from the database into a proper shape to be suitable for in my html. So the initial value is not shown in the time input.How can I solve this problem?

initial form:

<form  action="/courses/new_course/" method="POST">
     <div class="d-flex flex-column mb-3   p-2">
            <label for="due_exam_time">Due Exam Time:</label>
            <input type="time" name="due_exam_time" >
      </div>
</form>

The same form with the previously-user-entered value for updating the value of the time input

<form  action="/courses/update_course/{{ course.id }}" method="POST">
         <div class="d-flex flex-column mb-3   p-2">
                <label for="due_exam_time">Due Exam Time:</label>
                <input type="time" name="due_exam_time" value={{course.start_time}} >
          </div>
    </form>

The format of the course.start_time is not suitable for time input of html so it remain empty like --:--

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