Mike, Thank you. Yes, it most certainly is worth reading, and I appreciate your help. Is this really what everyone does? I was planning on trying to do something like this if I couldn't find a format that displays the dates or hours sans leading zeros the way I need them. So how do people do this? I use dates and times a lot, in all sorts of ways, and this represents a lot of extra typing.. So, my first thought is to attempt to build a method for time-string processing. Has anyone done this already? I'm relatively new to Zope and given my relative inexperience and fairly substantial workload I'd hate to reinvent the wheel if it wasn't necessary... Thank you, Chris

I have been reading and asking alot..so maybe I can help on this one. I am new to python and Zope so I hope this is worth reading. I would try taking the date or time..checking the string to see if it begins with a zero and if so..take the substring starting at an offset of 1. That should eliminate your zero. Hope this helps

Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Beaumont" <cbeaumon@msri.org> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 8:09 PM Subject: [Zope] What are the Zope time formats without leading zeros?

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Hello,

There has to be a simple answer to this question..

I am using both Zope DateTime and strftime formats to display dates and times of various sizes and flavors..

so.. my question is this..

What is the preferred formatting string/method for displaying dates and times sans zeros.

for example..as the standard "April 3, 2001" instead of "April 03, 2001"

or times with the format (to give another example) "2:00 PM" instead of "02:00 PM"

As one of my users put it.. "As a *very* minor point, I think that our web site's habit of listing dates before the 10th of each month with a leading 0 is uncouth; there must be a way to make Zope behave a little more intelligently."

Thank you all for your help...This is stumping me. I've tried what seems like at least 50 different ways of displaying times..

I'm sorry to ask such a basic question...

Thank you!