Python Django DateTime & Timezones

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Course preview

Lecture 2: Code editor + extensions

Lecture 3: Source code

Chapter 2: Basic exercises

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Get current date & time (naive)

Lecture 3: Get current date & time (aware)

Lecture 4: Get date and time separately

Lecture 5: Setup future date (i.e. 2 weeks from now)

Lecture 6: strftime vs strptime

Lecture 7: Formatting options

Lecture 8: Formatting and parsing current date & time

Lecture 9: Measure time between 2 dates

Lecture 10: Convert duration to minutes

Lecture 11: Day of the week

Lecture 12: Date validation

Lecture 13: Countdown timer

Lecture 14: Age calculation

Chapter 3: Timezones

Lecture 1: Basic Timezone Theory [OPTIONAL]

Lecture 2: Results with postgres

Chapter 4: Project: build a task logging system

Lecture 1: Start a new django project

Lecture 2: First view with the current time zone retrieved + display all timezones

Lecture 3: Different ways of getting date & time

Lecture 4: Date & time cheat sheet

Lecture 5: Mixin and decorator for timezone activation

Lecture 6: base.html file for the next lesson

Lecture 7: Add base.html file and display TZ in a template

Lecture 8: Create superuser

Lecture 9: Explanations to the next lecture for absolute beginners

Lecture 10: Create custom user model

Lecture 11: Create task model

Lecture 12: Create log model

Lecture 13: Use django signals to calculate log time & total task time

Lecture 14: Add log tabular inline and adjust task display in the admin

Lecture 15: Export logs data from admin according to users timezone

Lecture 16: Task list view

Lecture 17: Table code for the next lecture

Lecture 18: Display tasks on the main page

Lecture 19: Convert to work hours and minutes helper functions

Lecture 20: Add new task – form + view

Lecture 21: Code for the next lecture

Lecture 22: Add new task – template (with modal)

Lecture 23: Add confirmation message about newly created task

Lecture 24: Delete task

Lecture 25: Manually set the timezone

Lecture 26: Display the default (user timezone) in the form

Lecture 27: Code for selecting timezone as a function view

Lecture 28: Add messages and display alert

Lecture 29: Display username (as link to tz page) and jdenticon on the main page

Lecture 30: Detect timezone from browser (javascript)

Lecture 31: is_ajax function code for the next lecture

Lecture 32: Detect timezone from the browser (ajax + view)

Lecture 33: Display alert with detected timezone

Lecture 34: Task detail view + get_absolute_url method

Lecture 35: Code for the tasks page [Optional]

Lecture 36: Creating the tasks page

Lecture 37: "=" vs "==" vs "===" in Javascript

Lecture 38: Activate timer function

Lecture 39: Modulo operator vs divmod

Lecture 40: Add blinking light bulb

Lecture 41: Stop the timer

Lecture 42: The logic behind action buttons

Lecture 43: Csrf token code for the next lecture

Lecture 44: Initially hide action buttons and create send data function

Lecture 45: Log on tasks – frontend

Lecture 46: Log on tasks – backend

Lecture 47: Display confirmation alert

Lecture 48: Send data if user is leaving the task detail page

Lecture 49: Template code for the next lecture

Lecture 50: Task history of logs

Lecture 51: Custom filter with datetime according to the selected timezone

Lecture 52: Alternative approach – using timezone built-in filters

Lecture 53: Create task summary view

Lecture 54: Template code for the next lecture

Lecture 55: Define logic for the task summary view

Lecture 56: Finish the summary.html file

Lecture 57: Navbar code for the next lecture

Lecture 58: Add & style navbar

Lecture 59: Add login required mixins and decorators

Lecture 60: Improvement – better organization of the user admin

Lecture 61: Improvement – timezone info in session variable + use built-in timezone filter

Chapter 5: Challenge – Send Birthday invitation to friends

Lecture 1: Guidelines

Lecture 2: Solution

Lecture 3: Solution source code