Question

I have a postgresql table with a timestamp field, among other fields.

How can I convert this timestamp field to a standard datetime python object and get the date like this: “Apr 23”

I know how to do it in the django template (with the ‘date’ template tag), I need to do in views.py so I can create an array with these dates and pass it to the django template.

Answer 1

Something like this:

TIME_FORMAT = "%b %d"
f_str = obj.date.strftime(TIME_FORMAT)

or

TIME_FORMAT = "%b %d"
arr = [d.strftime(TIME_FORMAT) for d in dates]

strftime formatting