Flask - Date and Time
by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: May 25 2023
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Flask uses the MVC (Model View Controller) Framework. Just to make this as obvious as possible, I like my Flask apps to have the following.
- Model -> models.py
- View -> views.py
- Controller -> __init__.py
Let's say your Flask app has a structure like this.
├── main.py
├── database (directory)
│ ├── example.db
├── my-project (directory)
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── views.py
│ ├── models.py
│ ├── templates (directory)
│ │ ├── base.html
│ │ ├── home.html
│ │ ├── results.html
│ └── static (directory)
│ └── custom.css
In your view (views.py in this example), you can use from datetime import datetime and then use context_processor to make "now" available as a variable in your HTML template files.
Check out my article on Python Date and Time for more details and examples on the datetime module.
from flask import Blueprint, render_template, request, redirect, flash, url_for
from datetime import datetime
views = Blueprint('views', __name__)
@views.context_processor
def inject_now():
return {'now': datetime.utcnow()}
Then in your HTML files, you can use the "now" variable.
<p>The current year is {{ now.year }}</p>
For example, here is a web site that I made in Flask, where the top nav has the current year.
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