Django: How to format a DateField's date representation?

Question

Hello,

I have a Form with a DateField. The formatted date look like this:

2009-10-03

How can i Format that? I want it look like this:

03.10.2009

I found a widget which renders it like this, but validation doesnt allow the values i enter then...

Bye falstaff

Answer 1

To display initial field value properly formatted, use DateInput widget. To customize validation, use input_formats keyword argument of DateField.

Answer 2

Subclass custom field like this:

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