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

Did you provide datetime objects for start_time and end_time?

A quick try-out:

class Entry(models.Model):
    entered = models.DateTimeField()

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> Entry(entered = datetime.now()).save()
>>> Entry.objects.filter(entered__lte = datetime.now())
[<Entry: Entry object>]
>>> Entry.objects.filter(entered__gte = datetime.now())
[]
>>> Entry.objects.filter(entered__gte = datetime.now(), entered__lte=datetime(2009,11,1,0,0))
[<Entry: Entry object>]