European date input in Django Admin

Question

Django has a DATE_FORMAT and a DATE_TIME_FORMAT options that allow us to choose which format to use when viewing dates, but doesn\'t apparently let me change the input forma

Answer 1

You have to do this yourself for now, but it's quite easy to do with a custom form field class that sets the input_formats argument of DateField. This should do it:

class MyDateField(forms.DateField):
  def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    kwargs.setdefault('input_formats', ("%d-%m-%Y",))
    super(MyDateField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

Note that input_formats is a list, so you can specify multiple possibilities and it will try them in order when parsing user input.