Get date from a Django DateTimeField

Question

I would like to request some assistance regarding this matter

I am learning django and trying out some codes but I hit a brick wall at trying to get the date only fr

Answer 1

DateTimeField becomes a datetime.datetime object in Python

If you need a date object to manipulate later on, you could pull the datetime.date object directly from your DateTimeField(), using datetime.datetime.date() like below:

class ApplicantData(models.Model):
    scheduled_at = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)

date = application_data.scheduled_at.date()

This works because Django will translate the DateTimeField into the Python type datetime.datetime, upon which we have called date().

Format the datetime.date like you wish

Then from that, you get a datetime.date object, that you can format like you wish, using datetime.date.strftime().

If you don't need a date object, you can also use strftime on your datetime.datetime object too, no problems with that. Except that your had a None field in your object.

Dealing with NULL/None fields

If you want to allow for NULL values in scheduled_at you can do:

if application_data.scheduled_at is not None:
      date = application_data.scheduled_at.date()