Temporarily disable auto_now / auto_now_add

Question

I have a model like this:

class FooBar(models.Model):
    createtime = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    lastupdatetime = models.DateTimeField(auto         


        

Answer 1

For those looking at this when they are writing tests, there is a python library called freezegun which allows you to fake the time - so when the auto_now_add code runs, it gets the time you actually want. So:

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from freezegun import freeze_time

with freeze_time('2016-10-10'):
    new_entry = FooBar.objects.create(...)
with freeze_time('2016-10-17'):
    # use new_entry as you wish, as though it was created 7 days ago

It can also be used as a decorator - see the link above for basic docs.