Refs #27795 -- Removed unneeded force_text calls

Thanks Tim Graham for the review.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/django/db/models/fields/files.py b/django/db/models/fields/files.py
index bf0b1682c5..92e710299f 100644
--- a/django/db/models/fields/files.py
+++ b/django/db/models/fields/files.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ from django.core.files.storage import default_storage
 from django.core.validators import validate_image_file_extension
 from django.db.models import signals
 from django.db.models.fields import Field
-from django.utils.encoding import force_text
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 
 
@@ -302,7 +301,7 @@ class FileField(Field):
         if callable(self.upload_to):
             filename = self.upload_to(instance, filename)
         else:
-            dirname = force_text(datetime.datetime.now().strftime(self.upload_to))
+            dirname = datetime.datetime.now().strftime(self.upload_to)
             filename = posixpath.join(dirname, filename)
         return self.storage.generate_filename(filename)