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February 14, 2012 20:28
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Human readable time fields
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| from datetime import datetime | |
| def datetime_format(value): | |
| '''Provides pretty datetime strings | |
| The amount of information will change depending on how long ago the value is from now | |
| If the value is today then just the time will be returned | |
| If the value is this year then the year will be left off | |
| ''' | |
| now = datetime.utcnow() | |
| assert value < now, "Not for future times" | |
| if now.date == value.date: | |
| return value.strftime('%I:%M %p') | |
| if value.year == now.year: | |
| return value.strftime('%B %d') | |
| else: | |
| return value.strftime('%B %d %Y') |
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