how to change default dateformat AAAA-MM-DD to dd/mm/yyyy in Django?

Question

My locale dateformat is dd/mm/yyyy and Django is requering AAAA-MM-DD

when the user inputs 04/11/2009 Django raises:

_('Enter a valid date in YYYY-MM-DD format.'))

Im using simple html input field type="text", Not forms.DateField

Thanks :)

Answer 1

I'm assuming you are using a forms.DateField. If so, you need to supply a input_formats argument like so:

class MyForm(forms.Form):
    start_date = forms.DateField(input_formats=['%d/%m/%Y'])

input_formats just takes a list of the formats you want to accept.

See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#datefield for more information.