[Zope-dev] Zope 2.7 date international configuration

[Andreas Jung]

I just commited a patch for DateTime.py on the Zope CVS HEAD that should 
fix the problem.

-aj

--On Dienstag, 2. März 2004 12:04 Uhr +0100 Santi Camps <santi at zetadb.com> 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm just beginning to move my applications to Zope 2.7 and I've found
> something estrange related to dates. In the new zope.conf you can enable
> an option:  "datetime-format international"
>
> I've enabled it hoping that fields named   field_name:date  will be
> handled as dates in international format.  But not, they are handled as
> dates in "us" format.
>
> Seeing the ZPublisher/Converters.py I see that fields in the form
> field_name:date_international are handled OK.  But fields with just
> ":date" are hanled with default DateTime format.
>
> Seeing DateTime module, it seems that this default format should be in
> an environment variable DATETIME_FORMAT.  Also, it seems that this
> variable should be defined during Zope startup.
>
> But the result is that with :date fields, "us" format is always used,
> not following the instruction in zope.conf.  Perhaps there is some
> problem in Zope configuration machinery.
>
> Anybody else with this problem ?