Used to format the date and time of a datetime
or date
object.
The format
argument can be constructed using format strings or one of the following predefined formats:
DATE_FORMAT
DATETIME_FORMAT
SHORT_DATE_FORMAT
SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT
Variable
moon_landing = datetime.datetime(year=1969, month=7, day=21,
hour=2, minute=56, second=15,
tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
Sample Formats
{{ moon_landing }}
– July 21, 1969, 2:56 a.m.{{ moon_landing|date }}
– July 21, 1969{{ moon_landing|date:'l, F j, Y' }}
– Monday, July 21, 1969{{ moon_landing|date:"DATE_FORMAT" }}
– July 21, 1969{{ moon_landing|date:"DATETIME_FORMAT" }}
– July 21, 1969, 2:56 a.m.{{ moon_landing|date:"SHORT_DATE_FORMAT" }}
– 07/21/1969{{ moon_landing|date:"SHORT_DATETIME_FORMAT" }}
– 07/21/1969 2:56 a.m.
Note that the predefined formats are based on the current locale.