Migrating with South on a field that uses auto_now_add=True

Fabian Topfstedt November 29, 2010 Reply

In your case I would monkeypatch the fields of MyModel while migrating:

from django.db.models.fields import DateTimeField
from my_app.models import MyModel

def forwards(self, orm):
for f in [f for f in MyModel._meta.fields if isinstance(f, DateTimeField)]:
f.auto_now_add = False
f.auto_now = False
# Your data migration code here...