Question

I’m currently using the timeuntil tag to show an items expiration date. It’s currently spitting out…

{{rental_till|timeuntill}}

Which produces…

3 months, 1 week

Is it possible to get it to just show, the months, for example? Or any type of finer control over the output format, similar to the date tags.

Answer 1

To only show months, you could write a simple template filter that splits the string on the comma, and returns the first item of the resulting list. The filter code would look like this:

from django.template import Library
register = Library()

@register.filter
def split_timeuntil(duration):
    return duration.split(",")[0]

Then in your template: {{rental_till|timeuntil|split_timeuntil}}

However, the timeuntil filter does not have the kind of formatting date has. You can easily create a custom filter that returns the format you want by copying the timeutil code in django/template/defaultfilters.py and django/utils/timesince.py.