Django's |date:"..." template filter does not work with TemplateHTMLRenderer

[DanielSwain]

I have a viewset that uses TemplateHTMLRenderer as the first renderer_class. The form is returned fine when a date is rendered in an unformatted fashion:

However, when I include a |date:"..." filter after date_created, then nothing is rendered`:

<div class="field">
	<label>Date Created</label>
	{{ date_created|date:"l, M j, Y @ g:i:s A" }}
</div>

All Django built-in template tags work fine (e.g., {% if %}, {% for %}), but the |date:"..." filter does not work for any valid date format string. One other odd thing is that if I put in an invalid date filtering string ({{ date_created|date:"xxxxxxxxxxx" }}), then the invalid formatting string is rendered:

Is this a bug?

[DanielSwain]

It just occurred to me that the date is not actually being treated as a datetime object but, rather, it has been converted to a string. Not sure if this would be considered a bug.

[mymedia2]

Perhaps because the template works on serialized data which serializer_class has converted.