Best way to store year only 'YYYY' dates

[rayjowa]

Hi Guys, 

I'm working on a module and I want to store vehicle 'year of make'.  

Can you recommend the best field type in Django.  I'm considering either a DateField and setting the month and date to 1 or just using an IntegerField.

The only foreseeable calculations that will be needed are determining age of a vehicle. 

Ray  

[Humphrey]

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Subject:	Re: [zimpy] Best way to store year only 'YYYY' dates
Date:	Mon, 30 Nov 2015 18:56:46 +0200
From:	Humphrey <hbut...@gmail.com>
To:	rayjowa <ray...@gmail.com>

Hi Ray!

What if u you use DateTimeField?

Cheers

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[Anna Makarudze]

I was going to suggest that too.

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[rayjowa]

Thanks guys.  I'll provide feedback when I test.  Are there any arguments I need to set to make it accept input like 2000 as a DateTime?

[Humphrey]

Hie Ray,

You could do it like this:

 class Post(models.Model):
     time_bought = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, blank=True)

     def get_age_diff(self):
       age = age = datetime.datetime.now() - self.time_bought
         print age # this line is never executed
         return age

Cheers

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