Hmm, apparently South 0.6 doesn't actually handle dynamic defaults well at all; I was basing this comment off the last time I did it, with 0.5, when it worked fine. So never mind ;-)
Carl: Using "default=datetime.datetime.now" doesn't work with South migrations. It causes South to evaluate the expression, hard-coding today's date in the migration. Then every time you run the migration you get that date, regardless of the actual date.
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Hmm, apparently South 0.6 doesn't actually handle dynamic defaults well at all; I was basing this comment off the last time I did it, with 0.5, when it worked fine. So never mind ;-)
Though apparently the next version of South will handle it well again (by ignoring defaults entirely): http://south.aeracode.org/ticket/273
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Carl: Using "default=datetime.datetime.now" doesn't work with South migrations. It causes South to evaluate the expression, hard-coding today's date in the migration. Then every time you run the migration you get that date, regardless of the actual date.