I would lean toward #2 (your default seems reasonable).
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 10:20:38 AM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> This is wrong in the code but for logical reason. IS_DATE should not
> accept the timezone info. That is because unless you know a time of the
> time, it is not possible to determine the date (and time of the day) in the
> other timezone. This is reflected in the fact that datetime.date does not
> take a timezone while datetime.datetime.
>
> There are two ways out:
> 1) drop the IS_DATE(timezone) argument
> 2) make an implicit assumption about the time of date (always 00:00:00?).
>
> Suggestions?
>
> On Sunday, 12 January 2014 06:00:15 UTC-6, Graham Robbins wrote:
>>
>> IS_DATE() formatter sets
>>
>> d = datetime.date(year, value.month, value.day)
>>
>> and if self.timezone is not None it calls d.replace with the tzinfo
>> keyword, this results in the exception:
>>
>> File "/home/www-data/web2py/gluon/validators.py", line 2263, in formatter
>> d = d.replace(tzinfo=utc).astimezone(self.timezone)
>> TypeError: 'tzinfo' is an invalid keyword argument for this function
>>
>>
>> Changing *d* to be a datetime.datetime instance returns the formatted
>> date.
>>
>> The relevant field is:
>>
>> Field('deadline', 'date', requires=IS_DATE(timezone=pytz.timezone(
>> 'America/Chicago'),
>> format='%Y-%m-%d'))
>>
>> Should I be doing anything differently or does IS_DATE() need to be
>> changed?
>>
>> Web2py: 2.8.2-stable+timestamp.2013.11.28.13.54.07
>> Python: 2.7.3
>>
>
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