Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#6754 closed (wontfix)

Unclear documentation of default date/time fields values

Reported by: kip_parker Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: dev
Severity: Keywords: models, DateTimeField, DateField, TimeField
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

It wasn't clear from the documentation that date/time fieldstake a python date object as a default. I assumed that:

start = models.TimeField(default='20:00')

would be OK, but I needed

import datetime
start = models.TimeField(default=datetime.datetime(2008, 1, 31, 20, 00, 00)

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Jacob, 17 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

I'm not sure why you'd expect this to work -- would you also expect IntegerField(default="10") to work, too? There's nothing in the documentation that says that Django will let you be sloppy about types in this way, so I don't see how we could be clearer.

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