id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 19431,Prepopulate modeladmin forms datetime fields using querystrings,aleray,pyriku,"Hi, I wanted to prepopulate admin form datetime fields using querystrings like this: {{{ http://localhost:8000/admin/app/model/add/?start=2013-06-01T20:00:00 }}} But django wasn't really happy with me trying to pass a unicode object where it was expecting a datetime object: {{{ AttributeError at /admin/app/model/add/ 'unicode' object has no attribute 'date' }}} I came to editing contrib/admin/options.py, adding a special case for datetimefield. Attached is a very simple patch, let me know what you think... Thanks, Alex",New feature,closed,contrib.admin,1.4,Normal,duplicate,,,Accepted,1,0,0,1,0,0