Malcolm Tredinnick gave a talk at Djangocon last year that touched on this. He used a similar approach to Tim. Essentially he had a model that had a DateField and a precision.
Malcolm has his slides up: https://github.com/malcolmt/django-modeling-examples/blob/master/slides/modeling-challenges.pdf On Jan 25, 9:16 am, "Tim Sawyer" <list.dja...@calidris.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Karen, > > I did with two fields - storing a date and a date resolution. > > The values could be: > > date / resolution - display value > > 1984-12-31 / Exact Date - 31st December 1984 > 1984-12-01 / Month - December 1984 > 1984-01-01 / Year - 1984 > > So I just used the first of the month where unknown, and January where > unknown. > > I then had a method on the model object to return the format based on the > stored date and the resolution. > > It worked for what I needed it for, > > Tim. > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > I'm designing a model which is a collection of texts. Some of the > > texts will be things like books, with a YYYY date of publication, and > > some of them will be articles or transcripts with a mmddyyy date of > > publication/broadcast. > > > I'd like to structure it somehow so that when I view the list of texts > > in the admin site, I see something like this: > > > Title Date ...other > > fields > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------- > > Sample Book 1984 ... > > Sample Blog Post 1/14/2010 ... > > > Can I (should I?) store these two kinds of dates in one field? If I > > can't (or shouldn't), is there some other way to accomplish this > > (that's not too complicated)? > > > Thanks, > > Karen > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Django users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
