Question

In my form I have a DateField called booking_date that is rendered with the AdminDateWidget. The contents of the booking_date field needs to be internationalized. The problem appears when I want to use the value of the field in something like this:

booking = Booking.objects.get(booking_number='BN34D', booking_date='2010-11-21')

But if my date format is ‘%d.%m.%Y’:

booking = Booking.objects.get(booking_number='BN34D', booking_date='21.11.2010')

I get a ‘ValidationError: Enter a valid date in YYYY-MM-DD format’

How can I make the query regardless of the date format used?

Answer 1

I have solved the problem using this:

from django.utils import formats

formats.get_format('DATE_INPUT_FORMATS')[0]

This format is then used for parsing the date like xyld showed.