Great thank you Marlysson. I will try this as soon as I can. Hopefully tomorrow.
Thank you, Jeff Riley > On Jul 10, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Marlysson Silva <marlyss...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You try to make this: > > 1. Add library in the front-end to get user timezone ( this code need to be > in the first page that user access ), to get timezone first. > > - https://bitbucket.org/pellepim/jstimezonedetect/src > {{if timezone_is_unknown: }} > <script> > $(function() { > var tz_name = jstz.determine(); > $.get("{{=URL('default', 'define_timezone')}}", tz_name); > }); > </script> > > > 2. Add the controller responsible by determine timezone: > > def define_timezone(): > """Call ajax to determine user timezone""" > > tz_name = request.vars.name > > from pytz import all_timezones_set > > if tz_name in all_timezones_set: > session.user_timezone = tz_name > > > 3. And in the your model you put: > > from pytz import timezone > > timezone_user = session.user_timezone or timezone('UTC') > timezone_is_unknown = session.user_timezone is None > > > 4. Use in the your model related with timezone: > > IS_DATETIME(format=("%m-%d-%Y %H:%H), timezone = pytz.timezone(timezone_user) > ) > > There are other form, that is insert everything in UTC datetime and create a > function responsible to convert this timezone in UTC datetime inserted in > database. Just delayed a lot of kkkk, but yet I will create a > web2py_timezone_starter with app ready to receive apps that are handled by > timezones. > > I'm creating this application to demonstrate this, if you want look.. > > http://marlysson.pythonanywhere.com/timezone > > At app, the Hour "your PC" is datetime.now() simulating datetime of user, > just that it's datetime of the pythonanywhere. > > Em quinta-feira, 7 de julho de 2016 16:19:10 UTC-3, Jeff Riley escreveu: >> >> Hello all. Me again. I have run into an interesting issue. I have >> installed and followed niphlod's w2p_timezone_plugin. In order to make it >> work on my local PC I need to setup my db.py as follows. >> >> import pytz >> user_timezone = session.plugin_timezone_tx or 'UTC' >> >> >> db.define_table('events', >> Field('event_time', 'datetime', default = request.now, >> update = request.now, >> requires=IS_DATETIME(format=('%m-%d-%Y %H:%M'), >> timezone=pytz.timezone(user_timezone))), >> >> >> But to get it to work on pythonanywhere.com I have to setup my db.py as >> follows. Any ideas why? >> >> >> import pytz >> >> db.define_table('events', >> Field('event_time', 'datetime', default = request.now, >> update = request.now, >> requires=IS_DATETIME(format=('%m-%d-%Y %H:%M'), >> timezone=pytz.timezone("US/Central"))), > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/wL2y7s-FJWU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
