from django.forms import ModelForm, DateInput from cal.models import Event class EventForm(ModelForm): class Meta: model = Event # datetime-local is a HTML5 input type, format to make date time show on fields widgets = { 'date': DateInput(format='%Y-%m-%d'), } fields = '__all__' def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(EventForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) # input_formats parses HTML5 datetime-local input to datetime field self.fields['date'].input_formats = ('%Y-%m-%d',)