Show the date and time when the dev server gets started

[Julien Phalip]

It would be very useful, I think, if the dev server outputted the date and time when is gets started. Something like:

July 10, 2012 - 1:23pm
0 errors found
Django version 1.5.dev20120707224104, using settings 'src.settings'
Development server is running at http://0.0.0.0:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.

The server can't always be trusted to systematically restart when there's a code change. Because of that, I keep finding myself shutting it down and restarting it, just in case, because I'm not sure it actually just picked up the change. Seeing the date/time would help to quickly be sure.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Why not.

This could help, until we get a better autoreloader (one day).

[mgrouchy]

This seemed like a pretty simple addition so I added a patch for this to display the current Datetime in the format above.

Pull request is here -> ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/236

Let me know if it needs anything else.

[mgrouchy]

Is there anything I can do to get this Pull Request Reviewed?

[Claude Paroz <claude@…>]

In [cb1614f7b30f336db2a807b43696e20fdab7b78c]:

Fixed #18611 -- Display current date/time when running runserver

[Aymeric Augustin]

FTR this made it impossible to start the dev server on some platforms, see #21358 and #23265.