Ordering a Django QuerySet by a datetime's month/day?

Question

I have a list of people, each person having a birthdate, which is predictably stored in a DateField. I\'m trying to create a list of those people—sorted by the

Answer 1

Newer versions of django have the lookup on DateFields and DateTimeFields. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/models/database-functions/#extract

MyModel.objects.order_by('birthday__month', 'birthday__day')