I have wtforms defined for datetime field as below:
stime = DateTimeField(label='Start time',validators=[validators.InputRequired()],format = "%d%b%Y %H:%M",default= datetime.now(timezone('UTC')))
etime = DateTimeField(label='End time',validators=[validators.InputRequired()],format = "%d%b%Y %H:%M",default= datetime.now(timezone('UTC')))
On HTML page calling this fields as below:
<form method= POST action="{{ url_for('input_ext') }}">
<table>
{% for field in form %}
<tr>
<td>{{ field.label }}*</td><td>{{ field }}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>
<input id = "generate" name="generate" type=submit value=Next></form>
Flask Code:
from flask import Flask
from flask import render_template
from flask import request
from model import InputForm
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/',methods = ['GET','POST'])
#select interface and for selected interfaces pullup circuit info
def provideinput():
global devices
devices = ''
form = InputForm(request.form)
return render_template("utctime.html", form=form)
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run(debug=True,host="10.23.102.116",port=82)
Problem is that, i get time in UTC and is not updating to current UTC value whenever i reload page.It stays same as i start run python code. Anything wrong in defining DateTimeField ?
Changed as below,still no luck:
stime = DateTimeField(label='Start time(EDT)', validators=[validators.InputRequired()], format="%d%b%Y %H:%M",
default=datetime.today)
etime = DateTimeField(label='End time(EDT)', validators=[validators.InputRequired()], format="%d%b%Y %H:%M",
default=datetime.today)
Answer is in wtforms+flask today's date as a default value
Someone quoted this earlier. My bad i was editing at wrong place.
changed to :
stime = DateTimeField(label='Start time(EDT)',validators=[validators.InputRequired()],format = "%d%b%Y %H:%M",default= datetime.utcnow)
etime = DateTimeField(label='End time(EDT)',validators=[validators.InputRequired()],format = "%d%b%Y %H:%M",default= datetime.utcnow)