Question

In Django you can define how to display your timedate variables like so:

{{ invoice.printed|date:"D jS N 'y h:i a" }}

What if I wanted to use this date format across my site but have it declared in my settings.py as:

TOOLTIPS_DATE_FORMAT = "D jS N 'y h:i a"

Answer 1

You can create a context processor which includes this format in all your templates:

from django.conf import settings

def tooltips_format(request):
    return { 'TOOLTIPS_DATE_FORMAT': settings.TOOLTIPS_DATE_FORMAT }

Put this in a file such as main/context_processors.py (or a different app if you don’t have a Django app called main) and then add main.context_processors.tooltips_format to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS (docs) in your Django settings file.

You can then write in your templates:

{{ invoice.printed|date:TOOLTIPS_DATE_FORMAT }}