DurationField - Django Models - GeeksforGeeks

02 Sep, 2021
DurationField is a field for storing periods of time – modeled in Python by timedelta. When used on PostgreSQL, the data type used is an interval and on Oracle the data type is INTERVAL DAY(9) TO SECOND(6). Otherwise, a bigint of microseconds is used. DurationField basically stores a duration, the difference between two dates or times.
Syntax
field_name = models.DurationField(**options)
Illustration of DurationField using an Example. Consider a project named geeksforgeeks having an app named geeks. 
Refer to the following articles to check how to create a project and an app in Django. 
How to Create a Basic Project using MVT in Django?
How to Create an App in Django ?
Enter the following code into models.py file of geeks app.  
Python3
from django.db import modelsfrom django.db.models import Model# Create your models here. class GeeksModel(Model):    geeks_field = models.DurationField()
Add the geeks app to INSTALLED_APPS 
Python3
# Application definition INSTALLED_APPS = [    'django.contrib.admin',    'django.contrib.auth',    'django.contrib.contenttypes',    'django.contrib.sessions',    'django.contrib.messages',    'django.contrib.staticfiles',    'geeks',]
Now when we run makemigrations command from the terminal,
Python manage.py makemigrations
A new folder named migrations would be created in geeks directory with a file named 0001_initial.py 
Python3
# Generated by Django 2.2.5 on 2019-09-25 06:00 from django.db import migrations, models class Migration(migrations.Migration):     initial = True     dependencies = [    ]     operations = [        migrations.CreateModel(            name ='GeeksModel',            fields =[                ('id',                  models.AutoField(                  auto_created = True,                  primary_key = True,                  serialize = False,                  verbose_name ='ID'                )),                ('geeks_field', models.DurationField()),            ],        ),    ]
Now run, 
Python manage.py migrate
Thus, an geeks_field DurationField is created when you run migrations on the project. It is a field to store datetime.timedelta python object.
DurationField is used for storing python datetime.timedelta instance in the database. One can store any type of duration based on time or date in the database. To know more about datetime.timedelta, check out Python | datetime.timedelta() function. Let’s try storing a timedelta instance in model created above.
Python3
# importing the model# from geeks appfrom geeks.models import GeeksModel # importing datetime moduleimport datetime # creating an instance of# datetime.timedeltad = datetime.timedelta(days =-1, seconds = 68400) # creating an instance of# GeeksModelgeek_object = GeeksModel.objects.create(geeks_field = d)geek_object.save()
Now let’s check it in admin server. We have created an instance of GeeksModel. 
Field Options are the arguments given to each field for applying some constraint or imparting a particular characteristic to a particular Field. For example, adding an argument null = True to DurationField will enable it to store empty values for that table in relational database. Here are the field options and attributes that a DurationField can use. 
 
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