Hi Hermann, The z3c.form.converter.CalendarDataConverter, on which the DateDataConverter is based, explicitely sets the date format to 'short'. Overriding the latter with a 'length' attribute set to 'medium' will handle german dates as "dd.MM.YYYY".
Regards, Markus Kemmerling Am 27.08.2008 um 17:52 schrieb Hermann Himmelbauer: > Hi, > I'm somehow stuck on the following problem: > > I defined a Date() schema field in one of my interfaces. I > currently have a > de-AT locale, so I'd like to enter the value of my date as e.g. > "dd.MM.YYYY", > e.g. "01.02.1980" in my z3c.form based form. > > What happens is, that the locale silently assumes a format of > "dd.MM.yy", > which means, that the "YY / 80" is truncated and "01.02.19" is > stored in my > database, when updating. > > So, I'd like to know if: > > - It is possible to change the format to "dd.MM.yyyy", which is a > lot more > appropriate for my application (a birth date) > - Make the application more strict, meaning that no data is > truncated in any > case. > > I tried to stick my nose into i18n.locales but was somehow > overwhelmed by what > I found. However, the following somehow seems to explain it: > > </dateFormatLength > > <dateFormatLength type="medium"> > <dateFormat > > <pattern>dd.MM.yyyy</pattern> > </dateFormat> > </dateFormatLength > > <dateFormatLength type="short"> > <dateFormat > > <pattern>dd.MM.yy</pattern> > </dateFormat> > </dateFormatLength > > > Nevertheless I don't know if there's a way to select a specific > dateFormat, > e.g. "medium" in my case. > > Best Regards, > Hermann > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG key ID: 299893C7 (on keyservers) > FP: 0124 2584 8809 EF2A DBF9 4902 64B4 D16B 2998 93C7 > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) > _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users