Date and time smart input

Using Django The Admin
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We all know that when inputting time the colon sign is a distracting action. I would love is Django accepted EG 1800 as time converting it automatically to 18:00. Is there a way to set this as an overall behavior?
I already set this in settings.py: TIME_INPUT_FORMATS = [‘%H:%M’]

Same counts for dates EG 1210 converting automatically to 12-10-2023 always using the current year.

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I’ve never tried this, did you try adding '%H%M to TIME_INPUT_FORMATS?

For the date, I think you’re probably going to need to validate / adapt that yourself with a custom widget with a custom to_python method. You could try adding '%m%d' to DATE_INPUT_FORMATS, but you’re still going to need to apply the year yourself before converting it to a date object.

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It seems that does not work. I now have these 2 widgets that do the job now:

# WIDGET TO ACCEPT SIMPLE DATE INPUT
class SmartDateField(forms.DateField):
    widget = SmartDateInput

    def to_python(self, value):
        if value in self.empty_values:
            return None

        current_year = datetime.now().year

        if isinstance(value, str) and re.match(r'^\d{4}$', value):
            value = f"{value[:2]}-{value[2:]}-{current_year}"

        # Use the parent class's to_python method to handle validation
        return super().to_python(value)

# WIDGET TO ACCEPT SIMPLE TIME INPUT
class SmartTimeField(forms.TimeField):
    widget = SmartTimeInput

    def to_python(self, value):
        if value in self.empty_values:
            return None

        if isinstance(value, str) and re.match(r'^\d{2,4}$', value):
            if len(value) == 2:
                value += "00"  # If only two digits, it's the hour. Append '00' for minutes.
            value = f"{value[:2]}:{value[2:]}"  # Convert to HH:MM format

        # Use the parent class's to_python method to handle validation
        return super().to_python(value)