Question

This is the form:

from django.forms.extras.widgets import SelectDateWidget


class EntryForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta():
        model = Entry

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(EntryForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        this_year = datetime.date.today().year
        years = range(this_year-100, this_year+1)
        years.reverse()
        self.fields["date_of_birth"].widget = SelectDateWidget(years=years)

The date of birth field is rendered like so

How do I change it so that it will render as day, month, year?

Answer 1

From the source code of this widget I see the the order of dropdowns is defined by DATE_FORMAT setting:

    format = get_format('DATE_FORMAT')
    escaped = False
    output = []
    for char in format:
        if escaped:
            escaped = False
        elif char == '\\':
            escaped = True
        elif char in 'Yy':
            output.append(year_html)
        elif char in 'bFMmNn':
            output.append(month_html)
        elif char in 'dj':
            output.append(day_html)    

Try to change DATE_FORMAT in settings.py to j N, Y for example.