On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Graham Chiu wrote:
Okay, it's simple enough -
<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('mydate',_.DateTime('2000/12/31'))">
creates the date object I need to then reformat it.
Oops, spoke too soon. Spent the last few hours trying to suss this out without any progress :-(
I have a variable called START returned by a sqlquery
<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('startdate',START)"> start is <dtml-var startdate>
Is START being returned as a string, or as a DateTime from your query? If it's being returned as a string, you need: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('startdate', _.DateTime(START))">
and that's okay
<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('month',_.DateTime(startdate).aMonth">
That, and variations of the same, dies with
Error Type: TypeError Error Value: __div__ nor __rdiv__ defined for these operands
aMonth() is a method, not an attribute. You need to _call_ it, i.e.: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('month', _.DateTime(startdate).aMonth())"> or, if startdate is already a DateTime: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('month', startdate.aMonth())"> Another way of doing this, however, is something like the following: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('mydate', _.DateTime('2000/12/31'))"> <dtml-var mydate fmt=dd>-<dtml-var mydate fmt=aMonth>-<dtml-var mydate fmt=year> Voila.
Why is that these simple little things are so difficult in Zope?
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