Question

having used cakephp in the past, one thing (perhaps the only thing?) i liked about it was that it had a “create” and “update” timestamp capability that was lovely – simply put, when you first added an item, the “create” date was set (assuming you named it right – create_date, i think)

Anytime thereafter, if an update was performed, the “update” field was set to the current time.

Does django have this as well? If so, what/how do i name the fields to get it to pick them up?

Answer 1

Sure it has!

Check auto_now and auto_now_add in the doc