I had this need some time ago. You can check the answers of my question on stackoverflow for different avenues: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2971198/how-to-deal-with-partial-dates-2010-00-00-from-mysql-in-django
Etienne On Jan 25, 7:22 pm, David <djfis...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/slid... > > 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.
