Django statement to save date and time when a button is clicked

Question

I'm making a notes creator web application in django and I want to save the date and time when a note is created. (ie save date and time as soon as 'Submit' button is clicked.) What could be the django statement to do the same?

Answer 1

Inside your model class, add this:

created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

It assigns current time when object is created.

You can retrieve that data in html file by using:

{{ object.created_at }}