Intertwined problems with Django Time fields force hacks to edit/display time

[Duke Dougal]

I hope this is etiquette but I'm going to refer to the StackOverflow post for this problem because there's so much related information and because the formatting make it practical to understand.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54317070/intertwined-problems-with-django-time-fields-force-hacks-to-edit-display-time

In essence, the problem is that Django seems to change the data type of the time field which results in the seconds being dropped, which cascades onto a second problem which is that the template time filter tag returns None when its input does not have seconds.

Any help valued.