class MyModel(models.Model):
update_time = models.DateTimeField(_('Last modification time'),
auto_now=True)
Like that.
On Jun 11, 12:47 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 09:27 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm writing tests for an application, and I sort by update_time for
> > one model. Is it possible in my fixtures to set fixed times? Right
> > now, the update_time attribute is always almost "right now". If I try
> > to set it in my JSON fixtures file, that value is overridden when the
> > fixture is saved, and when I set it manually, I can't save because
> > then the update_time would be when I call save(), not what I manually
> > set.
>
> Is update_time an attribute on your model? Django doesn't store any
> update time by default does it?
>
> If this is something on your model, you need to fix it in your test code
> somehow. One thing I've done in the past (not in Django, but in testing
> time-sensitive items), is to load all the data into the database and
> then, as part of the tests setup() method, go in and update all the
> necessary time values to what I would like them to be for testing
> purposes. It's not a completely pure test because some of the data is
> set by some other means to production, but it's close.
>
> Sometimes overriding datetime.datetime.now (or whatever you are using to
> generate the timestamps in the first place) is possible, but it's fiddly
> to produce predictable, different timestamps.
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
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