I have this weird issue saving a DateTimeField
with Django 1.8
using Mariadb.
In a veiws I have:
print 'going to update lastposted', topic.lastposted
topic.lastposted = timezone.now()
topic.save()
print 'new topic lastposted time', topic.lastposted
the field lastposted
is defined in the model as:
class Topic(models.Model):
#other fields
lastposted = models.DateTimeField(blank=True)
def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
if not self.id and not self.slug:
slug = slugify(self.title)
slug_exists = True
counter = 1
self.slug = slug
while slug_exists:
slug_exits = Topic.objects.filter(slug=slug).exists()
if slug_exits:
slug = self.slug + '_' + str(counter)
counter += 1
else:
self.slug = slug
break
super(Topic, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
And when I add a new post into the topic I see in the terminal:
going to update lastposted 2018-06-25 03:45:11+00:00
new topic lastposted time 2018-06-25 15:12:08.469940+00:00
But when I see the field in phpMyAdmin the database, it still has the same old value, i.e 2018-06-25 03:45:11
.
The odd thing is that sometimes the update takes place.
What could be wrong here? How can I fix this?
Try
Using * twice should cause an error.