Re: How to represent a calendar month as a field in django models

On 4/05/2015 11:41 AM, Tom Lockhart wrote:
> On May 3, 2015, at 2:35 PM, Matthys <matthysk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I posted the question also on stackoverflow:
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30017229/how-to-represent-month-as-field-on-django-model
>>
>> The question is for situations where a model instance relates to a specific month, but not to a specific day.
>
> I would use a date field and, perhaps, clean the data to force the day to be the first day of the month. Then you can do date/time arithmetic using standard features.

Surely that would destroy data which wouldn't be desirable.

I would probably add a month (character or integer) field to the model
and extract and update that month field every time the instance is saved.

>
> hth
>
> - Tom
>

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