Date format for django SelectDateWidget

Question

SelectDateWidget is very convenient, but usually returns dates in the format "% Y-% m-% d". It does not accept a format parameter and does not have much documentation. Does anyone come across this or have an idea how to get around it to get the date output in a different format? There is this ticket, # 6231 , which says that there is a fix for it to use the DATE_FORMAT parameter from settings.py (although I don’t see why it also cannot be given a format parameter). There was a patch on the ticket from 2 months ago to implement this, so it seems to me that I will need to use the latest version of django dev in order to use it, unless there is a way to apply this patch to the django installation?

Answer 1

DATE_FORMAT works with SelectDateWidget, but you should use format strings without percent (as used in: now the template tag ) as follows:

DATE_FORMAT = 'j N Y'

Answer 2

Have you tried this setting? According to the docs, it seems to be DATE_FORMAT=a valid parameter since version 1.0. Are you using django version prior to version 1.0?

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.0/ref/settings/#date-format

Answer 3

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DATE_FORMAT = "%d %m %Y"