A Django template is a text document or a Python string marked-up using the Django template language. Django being a powerful Batteries included framework provides convenience to rendering data in a template. Django templates not only allow passing data from view to template, but also provides some limited features of programming such as variables, for loops, comments, extends, now, etc.
This article revolves about how to use now tag in Templates. now tag displays the current date and/or time, using a format according to the given string. Such string can contain format specifiers characters as described in the date filter section.
Syntax
{% now "D M Y H T " %}
Example
It is {% now "D d M Y" %}
Above tag will display, Tue 04 Feb 2020
now – Django template Tags Explanation
Illustration of How to use now tag in Django templates using an Example. Consider a project named geeksforgeeks having an app named geeks.
Refer to the following articles to check how to create a project and an app in Django.
Now create a view through which we will access the template,
In geeks/views.py,
# import Http Response from django from django.shortcuts import render
# create a function def geeks_view(request):
# return response
return render(request, "geeks.html.html")
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Create a url path to map to this view. In geeks/urls.py,
from django.urls import path
# importing views from views.py from .views import geeks_view
urlpatterns = [
path('', geeks_view),
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Now we will create a template to demonstrate now tag. Create a base template in geeks.html,
<html>
It is the {% now "jS \o\f F" %}
</html>
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Now visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/,
Advanced Usage
one can also use the syntax {% now "Y" as current_year %} to store the output (as a string) inside a variable. This is useful if you want to use {% now %} inside a template tag like blocktrans for example:
{% now "Y" as current_year %}
{% blocktrans %} Copyright {{ current_year }}{% endblocktrans %}