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11673	submitting an empty forms.DateTimeField fails even with models null and blank and required=False for the form field	Skylar Saveland <skylar.saveland@…>	nobody	"If you have a model like:

{{{
class Event(models.Model):
    ... 
    end = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True) 
    ...
}}}


and a modelform like:


{{{
from django import forms from events.models import Event

class EventForm(forms.ModelForm):

    end = forms.DateTimeField(('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M',),

        widget=forms.SplitDateTimeWidget(

            date_format='%m/%d/%Y', time_format='%H:%M',

        ), required=False

    )

    class Meta:

        model = Event
}}}


submitting an empty field will cause a validation error. "		closed	Uncategorized	1.1		duplicate			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0