models.Datefield being localized where it shouldn't

[akshaysalunke13]

So, I have a DateField in my model and have also set I18N & L10N to True in settings. When a browser running en-AU locale visits the website, Django tries to parse the value read from model, using the first value in DATE_INPUT_FORMATS from /conf.

The bug is when a user in en-AU locale visits the website, Django reads the Datefield value from model and tries to localize it for en-AU locale (from DATE_INPUT_FORMATS in /conf/en_AU) to this format '%d/%m/%Y', but html5 requires the value for <input type="date"> to be explicitly in this format: yyyy-MM-dd. ref ref2.

This causes an error in chrome dev console and the HTML date field rendered without the date read from the model.

This bug goes away when I disable L10N in settings. I am able to reproduce this bug in en-AU and en-GB

[akshaysalunke13]

Sorry, I posted this in the wrong place. Where would a bug report for Django go?

[shaib]

Please see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/bugs-and-features/

[akshaysalunke13]

Please see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/bugs-and-features/

Thanks for the reply @shaib. With a quick preliminary look, do you think this is a bug?

[shaib]

I can't rule it out without knowing more about how exactly you use the model in generating the page. However, the place for such questions is a support channel, see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/faq/help/