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10603	DateField DEFAULT_DATE_INPUT_FORMATS	pcicman	nobody	"Wouldn't it be better to move DEFAULT_DATE_INPUT_FORMATS to settings.py? 

DEFAULT_DATE_INPUT_FORMATS doesn't match for most European Countries, so only one way how to change it is putting format for every form field through input_formats argument, what's just not so nice.

Second problem is output (display) format of Date field. I think its similar to #3672. It just doesn't care of INPUT_FORMAT because its not implemented.

There are actually some formats available in settings.py, eg:

DATE_FORMAT = 'd.m.Y'
DATETIME_FORMAT = 'd.m.Y H:i'
TIME_FORMAT = 'H:i'
YEAR_MONTH_FORMAT = 'F Y'
MONTH_DAY_FORMAT = 'j. F'

which doesn't really make much sense. 

== PROPOSAL ==

Can't be this settings just combined together to one default date/time/datetime formats, which will be used for all date/time input/display?

In this case eg DATE_FORMAT can stay in settings.py, but should may be changed to tuple, which will contain one or more formats. For input, all formats will be available, for output will be by default taken the very first format.

I think this will make sense also for international pages, where will be still possible to provide different settings for different country/language/...

__unicode__ for date/time then can also return right output string (formated). This may be very useful for rendering date/time in template."		closed	Forms	dev		wontfix	forms date time datetime format templates		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0