vishak wrote: > what you have told is OK but when you enter in datefield 10-OCT-09 > instead of 2009-10-10 it gives error. >
If you don't tell a forms.DateField to expect 10-OCT-09, it won't. Django's DateField default input format list doesn't include that particular '%d-%b-%y' format by default. It does have a bunch of others, including e.g. "10 Oct 2009", _not_ just 'yyyy-mm-dd'! Beware in particular it allows the confusing 'mm/dd/yyyy' order that you might well want to kill with fire unless you're american. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#datefield You are probably autogenerating forms from your models, in your frontend or in the django admin or both. If so, model.DateFields will engender form.DateFields with default values including the default input_formats list. So you need to override the form field appropriately to set a nondefault input_formats list including your desired one. For your own forms on a one-off individual field basis, this is easy, just override the field in your form class appropriately. To do a bunch of 'em, one possible approach you could use is to make datefield subclass with the default you want http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-model-fields/ class MyFormDateField(forms.DateField): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): # you still want %Y-%m-%d on the list as it's # what the javascript datepicker used by the admin # injects on the client side. d = dict(input_formats=('%d-%b-%y','%Y-%m-%d',)) d.update(kwargs) super(MyDateField, self).__init__(*args, **d) class MyModelDateField(models.DateField): def formfield(self, *args, **kwargs): d = dict(form_class=MyFormDateField) d.update(kwargs) return super(MyModelDateField, self).formfield(*args, **d) class MyModel(models.Model): mydate = MyModelDateField() --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
