Question

I’m serving a Python app through Django. Within the app I’m storing the classic “created” field within a few tables.

This is how the field looks like within the Django form:

created = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, default=datetime.now())

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Unfortunately, datetime.now() is not accurate. In fact in the database I have sets of rows with the exact same timestamp.

The datetime.now() value seems to change every 30-45 minutes.

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My Django app is served on Windows Server 2005 behind IIS6.

Help would be amazing!

Answer 1

because datetime.now() is being called when your module is initialised and that value is being used for the default.

You want to use the auto_now_add=True parameter

created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

edit: no need for ‘blank’ if you’re setting the auto option.