Django automatic date time fields - created_on and updated_on
Automatically handling date and time fields
Django
Published At
7/3/2021
Reading Time
~ 1 min read
In Django, DateTimeField and DateField have two very useful arguments for automatically handling date and time
fields. You don't need to keep track of creation and updation of data manually. Just set the
auto_now and auto_now_add arguments to True like in the following example:
python
class BaseMode(models.Model):
created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
class Meta:
abstract = Truepython
class BaseMode(models.Model):
created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
class Meta:
abstract = TrueThe auto_now_add will set the timezone.now() only when the instance is created, and auto_now will update the
field every time the save method is being called on model.
And at the time of creation of instance, both will be filled.
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