How can I change the default Django date template format

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I have dates in ISO nbsp 8601 format in the database   Y- m- d  However  when the date is passed on to the template  it comes out as something like Oct  16  2011   Is there a way that I can manipulate the format to whatever I want

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In order to change date format in the views py and then assign it to template     get the object details  home   Home objects get home id homeid     get the start date  startDate   home home startdate strftime   m  d  Y      assign it to template  return render to response  showme html                                             home startdate   startDate                                               context instance RequestContext request

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Just use this     you date field date  Y-m-d      This will show something like 2016-10-16  You can use the format as you want

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Set both DATE FORMAT and USE L10N  To make changes for the entire site in Django 1 4 1 add   DATE FORMAT    Y-m-d    to your settings py file and edit   USE L10N   False   since l10n overrides DATE FORMAT  This is documented at  https   docs djangoproject com en dev ref settings  date-format

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Within your template  you can use Django s date filter  E g       lt p gt Birthday     birthday date  M d  Y     lt  p gt    Gives      Birthday  Jan 29  1983   More formatting examples in the date filter docs

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If you need to show short date and time  11 08 2018 03 23 a m   you can do it like this     your date field date  SHORT DATE FORMAT      your date field time  h i a      Details for this tag here and more about dates according to the given format here  Example    lt small class  text-muted  gt Last updated    your date field date  SHORT DATE FORMAT      your date field time  h i a    lt  small gt

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What you need is a date template filter   e g    lt td gt Joined   user date created date  F Y     lt td gt    This returns Joined December 2018

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yourDate date   Prefered Format      Example    yourDate date  F d  Y     For preferred format  https   docs djangoproject com en 3 1 ref templates builtins  date

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date template tag  settings DATE FORMAT

[django] How can I change the default Django date template format?

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