Re: Django: How to get American date format in a form?

I found here what I needed:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#date
There are shortcuts to customize the settings.

Thanks for your kind help Melvyn.

Regards,
Houman


On 13/08/12 21:52, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
> On 13-8-2012 22:41, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
>> On 13-8-2012 17:40, houmie wrote:
>>
>>> Its just a bit odd that templates show 11:15 p.m. Slight difference in
>>> the formatting. Also the dates within templates are defined like Aug
>>> 13, 2012. Doesn't confirm with my definition in formats.py.
>>> Are they stored somewhere else?
>> No, but you need the localize filter or tag:
>> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/i18n/formatting/#controlling-localization-in-templates>
> Wait, if this is the same data from the model, then you need to change
> the DATE_FORMAT. DATE_INPUT_FORMAT is for form fields, since the form
> field needs to be able to change it back to a format that python's
> datetime.date will understand. DATE_FORMAT is used for plain output.
>

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