Django: Getting Started Transcripts
Chapter: Django ORM and Databases
Lecture: Automatic `created` and `updated` dates on the model
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Let's add two more fields to our book. These two fields both stored date timestamps.
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The auto now add option says to automatically set the value of this field to the date time when the object was created.
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The auto now option says to automatically set the value of this field to the date time of the last time the object was changed.
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When you first create a book, these two fields will have the same value. If you edit the book, the created field will stay the same,
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but the updated field will have the new timestamp of the edit.