DateTimeField becomes a datetime.datetime object in Python
If you need a date object to manipulate later on, you could pull the datetime.date object directly from your DateTimeField(), using datetime.datetime.date() like below:
class ApplicantData(models.Model):
scheduled_at = models.DateTimeField(null=True, blank=True)
date = application_data.scheduled_at.date()
This works because Django will translate the DateTimeField into the Python type datetime.datetime, upon which we have called date().
Format the datetime.date like you wish
Then from that, you get a datetime.date object, that you can format like you wish, using datetime.date.strftime().
If you don’t need a date object, you can also use strftime on your datetime.datetime object too, no problems with that. Except that your had a None field in your object.
Dealing with NULL/None fields
If you want to allow for NULL values in scheduled_at you can do:
if application_data.scheduled_at is not None:
date = application_data.scheduled_at.date()