I know how to print out current date and time in the console, but I am trying to add the date/time as a feature on my daily task Python website using Django and Bootstrap4.
I have tried adding it as a function in my views.py file and then inserting the function in the html file of the page i want it to be on, but everything I have tried has not worked.
Here is the function I created at first in views.py:
def today(): """Shows todays current time and date.""" today = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%I:%M%p on %B %d, %Y") return today
Then I began playing around and tried this:
def today(request): """Shows todays current time and date.""" today = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%I:%M%p on %B %d, %Y") context = {'today': today} return render(request, context)
And this is what I tried adding to the html file:
<h4>{{ today }}</h4>
Update – Trying this and still does not show anything:
def today(request): """Shows todays current time and date.""" today = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%I:%M%p on %B %d, %Y") context = {'today': today} return render(request, 'learning_logs/topics.html', context)
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Answer
If you just want to display only in the template then you can do this
Current datetime:{% now "jS F Y H:i" %}