Fwd: How to display a date in my template as Mar. 1 2008...not 2008-03-01?

2008-03-02 Thread David Marquis
Or rather : {% for a in entries %} Date: {{ a.date|date:"jS o\f F" }} {% endfor %} -- David Begin forwarded message: From: David Marquis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: March 2, 2008 8:15:00 PM EST (CA) To: django-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: How to display a date i

Re: How to display a date in my template as Mar. 1 2008...not 2008-03-01?

2008-03-02 Thread David Marquis
You forgot the pipe | character and the colon : {% for a in entries %} Date: {% a.date|date:"jS o\f F" %} {% endfor %} If a is your date, then: {% for a in entries %} Date: {% a|date:"jS o\f F" %} {% endfor %} Have you read the docs? They are pretty clear about the syntax of templa

Re: How to display a date in my template as Mar. 1 2008...not 2008-03-01?

2008-03-02 Thread Evert Rol
> Daniel, > Now i'm getting the error: > > Could not parse the remainder: ' "jS o\f F"' from 'a.date|date "jS o\f > F"' >> It's a variable, not a tag, so use {{ a.date|date "jS o\f F" }} - ie >> {{ }}, rather than {% %}. > Shouldn't there be a colon between the filter and its arguments: {{ a.dat

Re: How to display a date in my template as Mar. 1 2008...not 2008-03-01?

2008-03-02 Thread Greg
Daniel, Now i'm getting the error: Could not parse the remainder: ' "jS o\f F"' from 'a.date|date "jS o\f F"' /// I just looked at my Admin. And when I open each record I see the value 'True' in my date field. However, when I look at it in the template it shows the correct date '2

Re: How to display a date in my template as Mar. 1 2008...not 2008-03-01?

2008-03-02 Thread Daniel Roseman
On 2 Mar, 18:45, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin, > I tried that but I'm still getting the following error: > > Invalid block tag: 'a.date|date' > > > > My Model file is setup this way: > > class Guestbook(models.Model): > name = models.CharField(maxlength=100) > loca

Re: How to display a date in my template as Mar. 1 2008...not 2008-03-01?

2008-03-02 Thread Greg
Justin, I tried that but I'm still getting the following error: Invalid block tag: 'a.date|date' My Model file is setup this way: class Guestbook(models.Model): name = models.CharField(maxlength=100) location = models.CharField(maxlength=100) state = models.USStateFiel

Re: How to display a date in my template as Mar. 1 2008...not 2008-03-01?

2008-03-02 Thread Justin Lilly
Assuming a.date is a valid datetime, you're probably looking for: {% for a in entries %} Date: {% a.date|date "jSo\f F" %} {% endfor %} which is explained on the previous link. On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex, > I tried that however I get the following

Re: How to display a date in my template as Mar. 1 2008...not 2008-03-01?

2008-03-02 Thread Greg
Alex, I tried that however I get the following error: TemplateSyntaxError: Invalid block tag: 'a.date' Here is my template {% for a in entries %} Date: {% a.date "jS o\f F" %} {% endfor %} On Mar 2, 12:03 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use the date filter:http://www.d

Re: How to display a date in my template as Mar. 1 2008...not 2008-03-01?

2008-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use the date filter: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/#date On Mar 2, 11:57 am, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm querying a table in my db. Each record that gets returned > contains a DateField (the date it was created). I'm able to show the > date in the template...how

How to display a date in my template as Mar. 1 2008...not 2008-03-01?

2008-03-02 Thread Greg
I'm querying a table in my db. Each record that gets returned contains a DateField (the date it was created). I'm able to show the date in the template...however I want to change the format it's being displayed as. In this case it's 2008-03-01. I want the date to show Mar. 1 2008. Thanks --~