forms.DateField

class DateField(**kwargs) [source]

Default widget: DateInput
Empty value: None
Normalizes to: A Python datetime.date object.
Validates that the given value is either a datetime.date, datetime.datetime or string formatted in a particular date format.
Error message keys: required, invalid

Takes one optional argument:

input_formats: A list of formats used to attempt to convert a string to a valid datetime.date object.

If no input_formats argument is provided, the default input formats are:

['%Y-%m-%d',      # '2006-10-25'
 '%m/%d/%Y',      # '10/25/2006'
 '%m/%d/%y']      # '10/25/06'

Additionally, if you specify USE_L10N=False in your settings, the following will also be included in the default input formats:

['%b %d %Y',      # 'Oct 25 2006'
 '%b %d, %Y',     # 'Oct 25, 2006'
 '%d %b %Y',      # '25 Oct 2006'
 '%d %b, %Y',     # '25 Oct, 2006'
 '%B %d %Y',      # 'October 25 2006'
 '%B %d, %Y',     # 'October 25, 2006'
 '%d %B %Y',      # '25 October 2006'
 '%d %B, %Y']     # '25 October, 2006'