+1
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Brian Lloyd wrote:
> 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
> uthe timezone (usually local) representation of the object*.
> Simply doing:
>
> <dtml-var theDate>
>
> ...however, would print the date in the current timezone of
> tthe 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
> rrepresentation 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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