How to prevent Django from auto converting datetime

Question

Datetime value such as, day = "2017-9-2 00:00:00" ,

when used in template,

index.html

...

{{day}} 
...  

it is auto converted by Django to Sept. 2, 2017, midnight.

How can I disable this behavior?

I want it to display in its original format, "2017-9-2 00:00:00".

Answer 1

You should override settings.DATETIME_FORMAT in your settings in order to override the default format.

settings.py:

# ...

USE_L10N = False                 # At first, disable USE_L10N, because it overrides the format
DATETIME_FORMAT = 'Y-m-d H:i:s'  # Set your own datetime format

Now every datetime in your project should be present in this format.

EDIT: If you don't want to globally format all the dates in this format, you can specifically format this date in your template, like this:

{{ day|date:'Y-m-d H:i:s' }}