Display empty_label on required selectDateWidget on Django

Unfortunately, empty label in SelectDateWidget is only used if field is not required, but you can simply change this by subclassing SelectDateWidget and overriding create_select method:

class MySelectDateWidget(SelectDateWidget):

    def create_select(self, *args, **kwargs):
        old_state = self.is_required
        self.is_required = False
        result = super(MySelectDateWidget, self).create_select(*args, **kwargs)
        self.is_required = old_state
        return result

But in that case you may have to override also validation of your field, so it will throw error that field is required, not that choice is invalid when select is left on blank value.

Although create_select has been removed in recent versions of Django I was able to use an approach very similar to @GwynBleidD's answer by subclassing SelectDateWidget and overriding get_context.

class MySelectDateWidget(SelectDateWidget):

    def get_context(self, name, value, attrs):
        old_state = self.is_required
        self.is_required = False
        context = super(MySelectDateWidget, self).get_context(name, value, attrs)
        self.is_required = old_state
        return context