Chapter 3: Dates and times with Flask-Moment (3e)

hello.py

@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
+from datetime import datetime
 from flask import Flask, render_template
 from flask_bootstrap import Bootstrap
+from flask_moment import Moment
+
 
 app = Flask(__name__)
 
 bootstrap = Bootstrap(app)
+moment = Moment(app)
 
 
 @app.errorhandler(404)
@@ -18,7 +22,7 @@ def internal_server_error(e):
 
 @app.route('/')
 def index():
-    return render_template('index.html')
+    return render_template('index.html', current_time=datetime.utcnow())
 
 
 @app.route('/user/<name>')

templates/base.html

@@ -34,4 +34,9 @@
 <div class="container">
     {% block page_content %}{% endblock %}
 </div>
+{% endblock %}
+
+{% block scripts %}
+{{ super() }}
+{{ moment.include_moment() }}
 {% endblock %}

templates/index.html

@@ -6,4 +6,6 @@
 <div class="page-header">
     <h1>Hello World!</h1>
 </div>
+<p>The local date and time is {{ moment(current_time).format("MMMM Do YYYY, HH:mm:ss")}}.</p>
+<p>That was {{ moment(current_time).fromNow(refresh=True) }}</p>
 {% endblock %}