How do you change the order of Django's SelectDateWidget to day, month, year?

Question

This is the form:

from django.forms.extras.widgets import SelectDateWidget


class EntryForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta():
        model = Entry

             


        

Answer 1

If you look in django/forms/extras/widgets.py where SelectDateWidget is defined the render function contains this snippet of code.

 90         output = []
 91         for field in _parse_date_fmt():
 92             if field == 'year':
 93                 output.append(year_html)
 94             elif field == 'month':
 95                 output.append(month_html)
 96             elif field == 'day':
 97                 output.append(day_html)
 98         return mark_safe(u'\n'.join(output))

_parse_date_fmt uses get_format('DATE_FORMAT')

It looks like DATE_FORMAT can be set in the settings.py

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#date-format