Django Accepting Am/pm As Form Input

I am trying to figure out how to accept am/pm as a time format in Django using a DateTime field, but I am having some trouble. I have tried setting it like this in my forms.py file

Solution 1:

DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS doesn't work for formats containg %p. Neither do input_formats kwarg.

As a quick work around, you can alter the input_formats attribute of DateTimeField in the Form's __init__ method. For example:

classDateTimeForm(forms.Form):
    CUSTOM_FORMAT = '%m/%d/%y %I:%M %p'

    date_input = forms.DateTimeField(widget=forms.HiddenInput)

    def__init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        ifself.CUSTOM_FORMAT notinself.fields['date_input'].input_formats:self.fields['date_input'].input_formats.append(self.CUSTOM_FORMAT)

Django documentation does say that %p cannot be used in parsing date fields.

But if you go through the source code, the to_python method of DateTimeField doesn't really enforce anything like that.