Fixed #8898 -- Obsoleted SplitDateTimeWidget usage with DateTimeField

Thanks Tim Graham for the review.

3 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
index 514561e1ff..34e974cea3 100644
--- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
@@ -215,6 +215,9 @@ these changes.
 
 * ``django.forms.get_declared_fields`` will be removed.
 
+* The ability to use a ``SplitDateTimeWidget`` with ``DateTimeField`` will be
+  removed.
+
 * The ``WSGIRequest.REQUEST`` property will be removed.
 
 * The class ``django.utils.datastructures.MergeDict`` will be removed.
diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt b/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt
index 62273fd38e..42d639e8c7 100644
--- a/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt
@@ -458,6 +458,12 @@ For each field, we describe the default widget used if you don't specify
 
     See also :ref:`format localization <format-localization>`.
 
+    .. deprecated:: 1.7
+
+        The ability to use :class:`SplitDateTimeWidget` with ``DateTimeField``
+        has been deprecated and will be removed in Django 1.9. Use
+        :class:`SplitDateTimeField` instead.
+
 ``DecimalField``
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
index 9fcad38931..fdbf63526e 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.7.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
@@ -1063,3 +1063,10 @@ the arguments may have been evaluated at query time.
 
 The ``ADMIN_FOR`` feature, part of the admindocs, has been removed. You can
 remove the setting from your configuration at your convenience.
+
+``SplitDateTimeWidget`` with ``DateTimeField``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+``SplitDateTimeWidget`` support in :class:`~django.forms.DateTimeField` is
+deprecated, use ``SplitDateTimeWidget`` with
+:class:`~django.forms.SplitDateTimeField` instead.