How to format DateTimeField in Django Admin to localtime?

Question

How to format DateTimeField in Admin according to localtime and timezone ?

My settings.py:

    TIME_ZONE = \'Europe/Bratislava\'
    LANGUAGE_CODE = \'e         


        

Answer 1

The answer to you question is proper configuration of settings and formats in Django project. Structure of example project:

.
|-- README.md
|-- demo.db
|-- demo_time_set
|   |-- __init__.py
|   |-- demo.db
|   |-- formats
|   |   |-- __init__.py
|   |   `-- en
|   |       |-- __init__.py
|   |       `-- formats.py
|   |-- settings.py
|   |-- urls.py
|   `-- wsgi.py
|-- manage.py
|-- requirments.txt
`-- some_app
    |-- __init__.py
    |-- admin.py
    `-- models.py

You can define it for multiple languages just by providing directory with appropriate name and formats.py inside. The example content of formats.py where all the MAGIC happens can look as follows:

# HERE FORMATING AS shown in:
# LIST: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#date
DATE_FORMAT = 'd-m-Y'
TIME_FORMAT = 'H:i'
DATETIME_FORMAT = 'd-m-Y H:i'
YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT = 'F Y'
MONTH_DAY_FORMAT = 'F j'
SHORT_DATE_FORMAT = 'm/d/Y'
SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT = 'm/d/Y P'
FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK = 1

# BUT here use the Python strftime format syntax,
# LIST: http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior

DATE_INPUT_FORMATS = (
    '%d-%m-%Y',     # '21-03-2014'
)
TIME_INPUT_FORMATS = (
    '%H:%M:%S',     # '17:59:59'
    '%H:%M',        # '17:59'
)
DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS = (
    '%d-%m-%Y %H:%M',     # '21-03-2014 17:59'
)

DECIMAL_SEPARATOR = u'.'
THOUSAND_SEPARATOR = u','
NUMBER_GROUPING = 3

Please notice two links in the comments, which will guide you to lists of proper configurations, which ARE DIFFERENT for DIFFERENT parts!

In your settings.py just add:

FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = 'demo_time_set.formats'

[GITHUB] Here is a full working example: https://github.com/andilab/demo_time_set