Question

I came across an interesting situation when using this class:

class Company(models.Model):
    date = models.DateField()
    time = models.TimeField()

c = Company(date=datetime.datetime.now(), time=datetime.datetime.now()) 

Django decides to use DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS defined within the formats.py file.
Which makes sense, because I am passing in a datetime.now() to both fields.

I think I could make Django to use DATE_INPUT_FORMATS and TIME_INPUT_FORMATS respectively, if I passed in only the current date and current time in.

Something like this:

c = Company(date=datetime.date.now(), time=datetime.time.now()) 

But this obviously throws an exception as now doesn’t exist like that. Is there a different way to achieve this?

Answer 1

For the date, you can use datetime.date.today() or datetime.datetime.now().date().

For the time, you can use datetime.datetime.now().time().

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However, why have separate fields for these in the first place? Why not use a single DateTimeField?

You can always define helper functions on the model that return the .date() or .time() later if you only want one or the other.