Karen, That makes total sense. I really missed the verbiage there.
Thanks. On Jun 30, 10:34 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Seth Buntin <sethtr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm having an issue with the date_based generic views archive_index. > > I am expecting the context to return a date_list with datetime > > instances of the years specified in my queryset. > > > The problem is my queryset doesn't return what I am expecting. The > > queryset only has one instance and it has a datefield values of June > > 6, 2009 the only date object I get in date_list is an object for > > January 1, 2009. Any ideas on what might be causing this? > > This is what I'd expect base on the documentation. > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/generic-views/#django-views-... > > says date_list is "A list of datetime.date objects representing all years > that have objects available according to queryset. These are ordered in > reverse. This is equivalent to queryset.dates(date_field, 'year')[::-1]." > > Looking up queryset.date > (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#dates-fiel...), > when you specify kind as "year", it says what will be generated is a list of > all distinct year values for the field. The example for kind="year" shows > datetime.date value of Jan 1 for the single year in the example set (the > full set in the example has multiple dates in the same year). > > Note the only significant value in the datetimes returned is the year, but > the month and day have to have values set to something (since Python doesn't > support a datetime.date with only the year part specified), so they are > arbitrarily set to 1 and 1. This does not mean there is necessarily any > instance in the queryset that has that exact date, it simply means there is > at least one (perhaps more) instance within the queryset with a date in that > year. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
