Hi all -
There has recently been some confusion over the expected
behavior of various approaches to DateTime formatting in
Zope regarding timezone representation. I would like to
resolve this for the next release by making a proposal
and asking you to reply to the list with a "vote":
+1 == agree
+/-0 == no strong opinion
-1 == disagree
So then, here is the situation. In Zope 2.2 (and earlier),
formatting a date using either:
<dtml-var theDate fmt="%A, %B %d %Y, %H:%M:%S">
<dtml-var "theDate.strftime('%A, %B %d %Y, %H:%M:%S')">
...would give you the date *formatted based on GMT rather than
the timezone (usually local) representation of the object*.
Simply doing:
<dtml-var theDate>
...however, would print the date in the current timezone of
the datetime object.
Many feel that this difference is unintuitive and a pain. The
proposal is that both:
<dtml-var theDate fmt="%A, %B %d %Y, %H:%M:%S">
<dtml-var "theDate.strftime('%A, %B %d %Y, %H:%M:%S')">
...would be changed to apply the format to the current TZ
representation of the object rather than convert to GMT. Of
course, this could be a problem if there are people currently
counting on the output being GMT, which is why we're putting it
to a vote. If this change is made for 2.2.1, those who still
wanted the output in GMT could just call the 'toZone()' method
of the datetime object to get a GMT version before formatting:
<dtml-var "theDate.toZone('GMT').strftime('%A, %B %d %Y, %H:%M:%S')">
What do you think?
Brian Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software Engineer 540.371.6909
Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com
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