#9853 closed (fixed)
DateField and DateTimeField documentation incomplete
| Reported by: | anonymous | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Documentation | Version: | 1.0 |
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| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Ready for checkin | |
| Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | UI/UX: |
Description
The documentation in the Model Field Reference for the DateField, DateTimeField and TimeField does not mention that these fields normalize to python datetime objects. The documention also does not indicate how to set or modify these values in python code (although acceptable inputs in forms is documented in the Form Fields reference).
I think the DateField doc (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#datefield) could be improved as follows:
Current: A date field. Has a few extra optional arguments:
Suggested: A date field. Normalizes to a python datetime.date object. Has a few optional arguments.
And similarly for DateTimeField and TimeField.
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comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by jacob
- milestone set to 1.1
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests unset
- Patch needs improvement unset
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Accepted
Changed 5 years ago by programmerq
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by programmerq
- Has patch set
- Triage Stage changed from Accepted to Ready for checkin
comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by gwilson
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by gwilson
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added notes about normalizing to Python objects