I'm writing a blog for my portfolio and I wanna compare (in the Django template) the date I published an article with the date I edited it in order to display the "Edit date" only if it was edited before.
The problem is: I don't wanna test for every single date field, like year, month, day, hour, minute, etc., but if I simply compare the two values, it'll always display both values, since the time precision goes beyond seconds, making the dates different even though I never edited that particular post.
TL;DR How to compare dates when their values will always differ, given the precision Django takes time, without using an iffor every value (year, month, day, hour, minute, second)?
What I tried: I successfully accomplished solving my main problem, but my code looks something like if this == that and if this == that etc.. It doesn't look pretty and I don't wanna code this for every website I build. It looks like there's a better way to solve it.
for comparison you can check the diff between two datetime objects
as suggested by John Gordon you should just just leave it empty till you actually have edited the post