overriding date format

I have 1 page in my app where I want to override the app's date
format. I tried assigning to settings.DATE_FORMAT in the view but that
had no effect. I know I can format the date in the template, but
without making a lot of changes, I don't know what fields are dates. I
thought perhaps the date filter would just pass through non-dates
unchanged, but that's not what it did.

How can I override the date format just for 1 view or how can I tell
in the template if a field is date or not?

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