Robert Wittams wrote:
> both auto_now and auto_now_add are quite hackish little puppies.
>
> auto_now should really be equivalent to a _pre_save that sets the field
> to the current time.
>
> auto_now_add should really be equivalent to a non-editable field that
> gets set to the current time on insert, and is just statically displayed
> afterwards.
I think you got them reversed, I think auto_now currently works as
intended. If you display it (your mistake I guess?) and edit it, it
will still cram in the current time on insert.
As for auto_now_add, I got rid of those and added,
def _pre_save(self):
import datetime
if (self.date_posted == None):
self.date_posted = datetime.datetime.today()
if (self.time_posted == None):
self.time_posted =
datetime.datetime.strftime(datetime.datetime.now(), "%H:%M:%s")
(by the way, for some reason date wants a datetime object, and time
wants either a datetime object or a string, I think... if you give time
a datetime object it won't insert H:M:S though (as it would if you set
the time manually through the form) - it puts in the timezone too, etc.
That's why I strftime the variable, if that makes any sense, I wanted
it to be uniform across the column.
