Django date filter: how come the format used is different from the one in datetime library ???
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Hello ! For formatting a date using date filter you must use the following format :
{{ my_date|date:"Y-m-d" }}
If you use strftime from the standard datetime, you have to use the following :
my_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
So my question is ... isn't it ugly (I guess it is because of the % that is used also for tags, and therefore is escaped or something) ?
But that's not the main question ... I would like to use the same DATE_FORMAT parametrized in settings.py all over the project, but it therefore seems that I cannot ! Is there a work around (for example a filter that removes the % after the date has been formatted like {{ my_date|date|dream_filter }}, because if I just use DATE_FORMAT = "%Y-%m-%d" I got something like %2001-%6-%12)?
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