2010-01-12-django-forms-date-field-format.html

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title: Django forms date field format
tags: django
---

<p>
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 <a href="http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3672">confusion</a> about how.
</p>

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