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Reputation: 5379

Django: convert DateField to string using DATE_FORMAT

I want to convert a Django DateField to a string according to the DATE_FORMAT as specified in settings.py, where I have a certain date format hard-coded. Can it be done without specifying a second (and at best superflous) date format for, e.g., strftime?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1477

Answers (1)

Abdul Aziz Barkat
Abdul Aziz Barkat

Reputation: 21807

You can use django.utils.formats.date_format (Source Code [GitHub]) to do what you want. Note that this is undocumented and appears to be only used by the template tags / templating system and hence may change in future versions.

from django.utils.formats import date_format


# Signature of the function
# date_format(value, format=None, use_l10n=None)
date_string = date_format(some_date_object)

Upvotes: 2

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