Re: overriding date format

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:58 AM, James Schneider
<jrschneider83@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On May 24, 2016 3:32 PM, "Larry Martell" <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> Django warns that settings should not be modified at runtime, which is
> probably why it had no effect:
>
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/settings/#altering-settings-at-runtime
>
>> 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?
>
> I would use one of a couple options:
>
> - Examine the data within the view, and modify those fields with the correct
> date format before passing your data off to the context to be rendered. At
> that point you still have the full complement of Python tools at your
> disposal without the drag of the template processor nuances and slower
> processing time.

Yes, that is what I ended up doing.

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