Django Rusty Templates Since September 2024, I (and some collaborators) have been building a reimplementation of Django’s templating language in Rust, called Django Rusty Templates. During this process, we have discovered several weird edge-cases and bugs, some of which I’ve talked about before (Part 1, Part 2). The {% now %} tag The {% now %} tag is provided by Django to display the current date or time. It uses a format specifier language designed for compatibility with PHP, which feels like an odd decision in retrospect, since most Python programmers are used to the strftime style formatting provided by the Python datetime module.