Getting a datetime.date object for a DateTimeField when using select_related with SQL Server

[Mat Moore]

Hi,

When I use select_related, and the related model has a DateTimeField, I don't get a proper datetime.datetime when I then access that field. Instead I get a datetime.date.

If I set up the following models

from django.db import models

class Author(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    dob = models.DateTimeField()

class Book(models.Model):
    author = models.ForeignKey(Author)

And then run the following:

from books.models import Author, Book
import datetime
author = Author(name='Bob', dob=datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0))
author.save()
book = Book(author=author)
book.save()

print repr(Book.objects.filter(pk=book.pk)[0].author.dob)
print repr(Book.objects.filter(pk=book.pk).select_related('author__dob')[0].author.dob)

I get the output

datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0)
datetime.date(1970, 1, 1)

I'm using MS SQL Server 2008 R2. I also tried running the above code with SQLLite, and in that case I get the datetime in both cases as expected.

[Claude Paroz]

MS SQL is not a database supported in Django core, so you should report a bug against the MS SQL adapter. If you can reproduce with one of the supported databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle), then reopen.