Vinicius Assef <viniciusban@...> writes: > > Clarifying, > date fields are stored in internal format and they are optimized for that. > > You can customize representation format, not stored format. It was > what Ovidio showed you. > > -- > Vinicius Assef. > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Ovidio Marinho <ovidioccg@...> wrote: > > > > in db > > Field('start_time','datetime',requires=IS_DATETIME(str(T('%Y-%m-%d > > %H:%M:%S')))), > > Field('stop_time','datetime',requires=IS_DATETIME(str(T('%Y-%m-%d > > %H:%M:%S')))), > > > > db.task.start_time.represent = lambda v: v.strftime('%d/%m/%Y') > > db.task.stop_time.represent = lambda v: v.strftime('%d/%m/%Y') > > is this > > in view: > > > > <td>{{=task.start_time.date().strftime('%d-%m-%Y')}}</td> > > <td>{{=task.stop_time.date().strftime('%d-%m-%Y')}}</td> > > ok? > > > > > > Ovidio Marinho Falcao Neto > > ovidioccg@... > > 83 8826 9088 - Oi > > 83 9334 0266 - Claro > > Paraiba-Brasil > > > > > > > > 2011/10/11 Rohit <rohit.bayar@...> > >> > >> I am developing an online booking application where > >> I am storing the date using the date type of > >> web2py which stores the date in yyyy-mm-dd format. > >> I need to store the data in dd-mm-yyyy format in > >> the datastore. > >> > >> For this I tried to use this : > >> date.requires = IS_DATE(format=T('%d-%m-%Y') > >> > >> Though it takes the date in dd-mm-yyyy format > >> it does not store in the dd-mm-yyyy format.It still > >> stores in yyyy-mm-dd format > >> > >> Please provide suggestion > >> > >> Thanks > >> > > > > > > So in my application, say I will store date in yyyy-mm-dd format and I need to retrieve the date at several pages in my application and I want to display the date in dd-mm-yyyy, then one option would be to use the strftime() method in the view wherever I display the date. Because I retrieve the date at several pages in the application storing date in dd-mm-yyyy in database would have been much easier for me. Since its not possible.Is there any other easier solution to achieve it.
Rohit