django-calendardate

A calendar model with date metadata for querying against.

Sometimes it is useful to have a range of dates and associated metadata stored in the database, rather than calculating on-the-fly, particularly when creating reports based on quarters, fiscal years, etc. This is where django-calendardate comes in. Also known as a date dimension table or calendar table, the inspiration for this project comes from this article.

django-calendardate provides:

• a model for storing metadata about a set of dates.
• a management command for generating the metadata

THIS PROJECT IS PRE_RELEASE. It works, but is missing documentation and tests. Be cautious.

Usage

Install using pip:

pip install django-calendardate

Add to settings.INSTALLED_APPS

Run manage.py migrate

To process a range of dates (ignoring any duplicates):

python manage.py process_dates 2021-01-01 2021-12-31

To process a range of dates (overwriting any duplicates):

python manage.py process_dates 2021-01-01 2021-12-31 --force

Optional settings.py settings

By default, django-calendardate assumes a fiscal year starts in October. If your fiscal year begins on a different month, set FISCAL_YEAR_START_MONTH to the month number (1-indexed). For instance January would be 1).

FISCAL_YEAR_START_MONTH = 1

Model Fields

Each of the following are automatically calculated and inserted into the model using the process_dates management command.

calendar_date (DateField)

The actual date object

calendar_day (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

Number from 1 through 31

calendar_month (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

Month number from 1-12

calendar_year (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

Current year, eg: 2017, 2025, 1984

calendar_quarter (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

1-4, indicates quarter within the current year

fiscal_year (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

Current fiscal year, eg: 2017, 2025, 1984

fiscal_quarter (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

1-4, indicates fiscal quarter within the current fiscal year

day_of_week (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6

day_of_isoweek (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

Monday is 1 and Sunday is 7

day_of_quarter (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

Number from 1-92, indicates the day # in the current quarter

day_of_year (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

Number from 1-366

week_of_month (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

Number from 1-6, indicates the number of week within the current month

week_of_year (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

Number from 1-53, indicates the number of week within the current year

isoweek_of_year (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

Number from 1-53, indicates the number of isoweek within the current year

is_weekday (BooleanField)

True if Monday-->Friday, False for Saturday/Sunday

is_leap_year (BooleanField)

True if current year is a leap year

days_in_month (PositiveSmallIntegerField)

Number of days in the current month

Model Properties

Each of the following properties are provided for each date.

get_day_name (property)

returns a string with the name of the day for the given date (e.g.: "Monday")

get_month_name (property)

returns a string with the name of the month for the given date (e.g.: "January")

get_month_abbreviated (property)

returns a string with the abbreviated name of the month for the given date (e.g.: "Jan")

Quick Example:

Say you have an Order model with a order_date field, and you want to query all of the orders that were placed in the third fiscal quarter of fiscal year 2021.

# Return list of  of dates in 3rd Qtr of FY21
third_fiscal_qtr_dates = CalendarDate.objects.filter(fiscal_year=2021, fiscal_quarter=3).values_list('calendar_date', flat=True)

# Filter on those dates
third_qtr_orders = Order.objects.filter(order_date__in=third_fiscal_qtr_dates)

To Do

1. Testing
2. Better documentation
3. Translations (strings already marked for translation)