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    Django forms date field format

    Django defaults dates in forms to the format "2010-01-15". But changing the default format is fairly straight-forward, though there appears to be some confusion about how.

    class MyForm(Form):
        
        # the default format is %Y-%m-%d
        date_available = forms.DateField(
            widget=forms.widgets.DateInput(format="%m/%d/%Y"))
    

    Tags: django

    GitHub: _posts/2010-01-12-django-forms-date-field-format.html

    Updated: January 12, 2010

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