Dear Zopistas, is there a subtle trick to using date and time from a folder property or using the fmt="%[A-Za-z]" options? When I use &dtml-var "_[ 'sequence-item'].date" fmt="aCommon"; the date and time shows me the date and time according to the local timezone (Pacific Standard Time) just as I need it. However, when I use &dtml-var "_[ 'sequence-item'].date" fmt="%a %m/%d %x %X %c"; fmt="aCommon" all the dates and times are 7 hours ahead (GMT?). I'm looking at the python module docs (http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-time.html) and wondering why I can't extract the correct information according to the local timezone (as fmt="aCommon" seems to do). Am I doing something wrong or just plain overlooking something? Any Zope Zen hint(s) would be appreciated! Thanks, = Joe = Jim Fulton wrote:

Stephan Richter wrote:

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hey guys,

sorry, i have another question: How can I display dates and time smart.

That what I did so far: I wrote an external method that returns a DateTime object. I call it: <!--#var get_current_time fmt=aCommon--> But I want to display everything like I wish using strftime syntax.

You can use strftime formats with date-time objects, as in:

<!--#var get_current_time fmt="%Y/%m/%d"-->

Note that you can use ZopeTime to get the current time:

<!--#var ZopeTime fmt="%Y/%m/%d"-->

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I tried to pass a format attribute to the external function, but I could not figure out, how to call this function with an attribute.

If the eternal method accepted keywork arguments, you could then use a similar syntax:

<!--#var "get_current_time(fmt=;%Y/%m/%d')"-->

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