django-unixdatetimefield 1.0.2

UnixDateTimeField in Django

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Provides a UnixDateTimeField for your Django models.

I have found this especially useful when integrating Django into legacy databases, where the typical DateTime column type is rather stored as a Unix timestamp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time).

UnixDateTimeField is based on the implementation of the standard Django DateTimeField, making it 100% compatible with all features and options it supports.

Usage

First you’ll need to attach a UnixDateTimeField to your model. This acts as a the equivalence of a Django PositiveIntegerField at the database level but provides a Django DateTimeField at the ORM abstraction layer.

Example model:

from django_unixdatetimefield import UnixDateTimeField

class MyModel(models.Model):
        created_at = UnixDateTimeField()

Python ORM query:

>>> m = MyModel()
>>> m.created_at = datetime.datetime(2015, 2, 21, 19, 38, 32, 209148)
>>> m.save()

Database:

sqlite> select created_at from mymodel;
1426967129

Enjoy!

Installation

Install with pip (or easy_install):

pip install django-unixdatetimefield

License

BSD, just as the main Django project. See LICENSE file in root of this repo.

Contributing

This project accepts contributions via GitHub pull requests.

• follow Google’s Python style guide https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html

• make commits of logical units, messages should include what changed and why and be written in past tense