Date formator In django

Question

i working on a registration form in django I taking input from date field from front end is "12/15/2016" but i want to save it like 12 dec 2016 in my django database. I am using this calender

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
 <script>
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#datepicker").datepicker();
  });
  </script>

my model.py for date is

posting_date = models.DateField(blank=True)

Views.py

post_date = str(request.POST['date'])

date = post_date.split('/')

formatted_date= date[1]+"-"+date[0]+"-"+date[2]

I want to save Dec instead of 12 for month

Possible duplicate of [Save date in django in desired format](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41140317/save-date-in-django-in-desired-format) — Antonis Christofides, Dec 14 '16 at 13:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '16 at 12:40

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Do it like this:

from dateutil import parser
formatted_date = parser.parse("12/15/2016")
yourobject.posting_data = formatted_date

answered Dec 14 '16 at 12:40

Adilet Maratov

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 14 '16 at 12:40

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Try formatting it using strptime and strftime instead:

formatted_datetime = datetime.strptime(post_date, strftime('%m/%d/%Y')) #formatted_datetime is now a datetime object
print( formatted_datetime.strftime('%d-%b-%Y') )

Documentation:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior

answered Dec 14 '16 at 12:40

SarTheFirst

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global name 'strftime' is not defined – vikrant Verma Dec 14 '16 at 13:05
from datetime import datetime – SarTheFirst Dec 14 '16 at 13:06
i alreday import this – vikrant Verma Dec 14 '16 at 13:09
It needs to be, in the file: from datetime import datetime formatted_datetime = datetime.strptime(post_date, strftime('%m/%d/%Y')) – SarTheFirst Dec 14 '16 at 13:12

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 14 '16 at 12:40

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You can use DATE_FORMAT. See also: date

answered Dec 14 '16 at 12:40

Dimitar Hristov

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Date formator In django

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