Auto resets my databases default for datetime values everytime I migrate

[erik@…]

Hi,

Everytime I run an "auto" migration, South updates my DateTimeField? default value in my database to the current datetime.

My model is setup like this:
created = models.DateTimeField?(default=datetime.datetime.now, editable=False)

South should ignore the default in this case.

[andrew]

Do you mean it makes a migration with alter_column in it each time? Could you attach one?

[andrew]

We won't fix this, as we don't like special cases. The recommended fix is to use auto_now or auto_now_add, or a pre_save signal.