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This small javascript snippet replaces standard django clock shortcuts Midnight, Noon, Now & 6am with various time increments .

$(window).load(function() {
  $('.timelist').each(function(num, el) {
    time_format = get_format('TIME_INPUT_FORMATS')[0];
    $(el).html('');
    for (i=8; i<20; i++) {
      var time = new Date(1970,1,1,i,0,0);
      lnk = "javascript:DateTimeShortcuts.handleClockQuicklink(" + num + 
                  ", '" + time.strftime(time_format) + "');"
      $(el).append('<li><a href="'lnk'">' + time.strftime('%H:%M') + '</a></li>');
    }
  });
});

This snippet use JQuery which is available with Django 1.2. (dev at time of writing)
Also, javascript should be loaded after DateTimeShortcuts.js but unfortunately I didn’t find a better way to achive this but to add in modified base admin site templates/admin/base_site.html. If you have any suggestion for improvement, let me know in comments.

I started this project as I needed to deliver help and documentation for django-admin on client website and admindocs seems more oriented to developers than to users.

http://github.com/bmihelac/django-simpleadmindoc

If you want to explicitly set language for django admin section use this middleware:

from django.conf import settings

class AdminLocaleURLMiddleware:

    def process_request(self, request):
        if request.path.startswith('/admin'):
            request.LANG = getattr(settings, 'ADMIN_LANGUAGE_CODE', settings.LANGUAGE_CODE)
            translation.activate(request.LANG)
            request.LANGUAGE_CODE = request.LANG

Then put somewhere in settings.py:

ADMIN_LANGUAGE_CODE=’it’

and add middleware:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
   ...
    'utils.multilang.middleware.AdminLocaleURLMiddleware',
   ....

Error when touching django.wsgi: Can’t connect to MySQL server…

did not help unless restarted apache.

Solution that did work is to set DATABASE_PORT to ‘3306’ instead of empty string. Not sure why…