Question

Is it possible to allow manual editing of auto DateTimeField’s on the add / change page of a model. The fields are defined as:

post_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
post_updated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

I’m not sure how manually overriding these would exactly work, is the auto updating handled at the database level or in django itself?

Answer 1

auto_now_add=True and auto_now=True assume editable=False. So if you need to correct this field, don’t use them.

Auto updating handles at django level. For example, if you update queryset, e.g.

Article.object.filter(pk=10).update(active=True)

won’t update post_updated field. But

article = Article.object.get(pk=10)
article.active = True
atricle.save()

will do