Django naming conventions for dates.

Question

Is there any naming convention for "created" and "last edit" dates in Django?

ie. in Symfony Framework this fields are named by default:

• created_at
• updated_at

Answer 1

I prefer created and updated without the _at suffix. I don't know of any "canonical" preference for naming the fields.

For what it is worth, I think Rails uses created_at / created_on and updated_at / updated_on.

Answer 2

In Django origin models this fields are named based on Model type ie.

• auth.User: date_joined
• comments.Comment: submit_date

So probably we should follow this convention.