+1

-----Original Message----- From: Brian Lloyd [SMTP:Brian@digicool.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 11:35 AM To: 'zope@zope.org' Subject: [Zope] Your feedback: what should DateTime strftime() behavior be?

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 brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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