How do I filter by time in a date time field?

Question

In the model \'entered\' is a datetime field. I want to query the data to find all entry\'s that where made between noon(start_time) and 5:00pm (end_time).

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Answer 1

You could filter in python instead using the db's mechanisms:

for e in Entry.objects.all():
   if i.entered.hour>= 9 and i.entered.hour < 17 :# or break down to minutes/seconds
        list.append(e)

but both solutions are ugly, i think.

Steve, you have to decide, what is less ugly for you:

• processsing a lot of data in a for-loop,
• or use .extra(..) and by-passing the orm-system