Django HTML template tag for date

Question

I get date data from an API on the internet, but it comes as a string. How do I convert this to the following format using django HTML template tag?

Current date data format: 2022-02-13 00:00:00 UTC

My wish format: 13 February 2022 00:00

My wish another format: 13 February 2022

Answer 1

Because in templates it's not that simple to use Python, we need to create custom Template Tag. Let's start with creating folder in your app, let's name it custom_tags.py. It should be created in YourProject/your_app/templatetags/ folder, so we have to also create templatetags folder in there.

custom_tags.py:

from django import template
import datetime

register = template.Library()

@register.filter(name='format_date')
def format_date(date_string):
    return datetime.datetime.strptime(date_string, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z')

your_template.html:

{% load custom_tags %}

{{ datetime_from_API|format_date|date:'d F Y j:i' }}

# or if that does not work - I can't check it right now

{% with datetime_from_API|format_date as my_date %}
    {{ my_date|date:'d F Y j:i' }}
{% endwith %}

If you can get datetime objects directly you can use date tag in templates.

usage:

with hour:
{{ some_model.datetime|date:'d F Y j:i' }}

date only:
{{ some_model.datetime|date:'d F Y' }}

Read more in Django DOCS