Is DateTimeField with auto_now_add option enabled must has value in fixtures

Question

I have model created field configurated as follows:

created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

In JSON fixtures I don't want to declare value for created, but when I try to load fixtures (loadata) I am getting error:

created may not be NULL

So I must provide created value in fixtures or there is an other way?

Answer 1

Try

import datetime
created = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)

And about why this happening you can read over here: Django auto_now and auto_now_add and Django model field default