Question

So I’m trying to get the last_login time for all the users but I can’t figure out how to do that for a user that isn’t logged in.

Is there any way to get this date for user that isn’t logged in? or does that user.last_login only work for the user that is currently logged in?

Answer 1

last_login is just a DateTimeField stored in the User model provided by contrib.auth. You can query the User objects just like you would any of your own models.

To print out the last_login for all users, simply loop through the queryset:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

for user in User.objects.all():
    print user.last_login

Alternatively, to get a specific user’s last_login just query for that particular user:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

last_login = User.objects.get(username='bob').last_login

The last_login field is set whenever the user last logged in (or, if they haven’t logged in yet, it is set to the time the user account was created). Regardless, it’s always stored in the database so it’s accessibility has nothing to do with whether the user is currently logged in or not.