[Zope] Zope 2 ODBC date errors

[Miller, John M.]

Not quite non-US only, I had the same problem and I'm the Chicago-land area.
I think part of the problem (if not all of it) is that Zope recognizes
timezones as named in Unixen-land (hmm, sure am in a -land mood this
morning), and has a little "difficulty" when it comes to recognizing what
Windows considers to be proper timezone names (those guys never did figure
out how to place nice with others).

You can fix it locally by going in and editing DateTime.py, though of course
you will have to reapply your changes the next time you upgrade.  You just
need to figure out what your system is calling the timezone you are in and
adding an appropriate entry to the _zmap dictionary.  Something like:

	'Central Time':'GMT-6'

Which, BTW, is what I had to do to get things working for my system.

HTH,
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Graham Chiu [SMTP:anon_emouse@hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, July 25, 1999 8:30 PM
> To:	zope@zope.org
> Subject:	Re: [Zope] Zope 2 ODBC date errors
> 
> In article <D133051DBC4AD111B90800A0C969498391D592@natasha.auslabs.lucen
> t.com>, Jay, Dylan <djay@lucent.com> writes
> >Its that damm timezone problem in zope. If the python string returned as
> >your timezone is not known to zope it barfs. This problem has been going
> on
> >for months and I feel because it is something that only effects
> non-american
> >zope users there has not been enough effort into fixing it. In fact I
> have
> >fixed this bug and submitted it and am disappointed that it has not made
> >into the source yet as was promised. 
> >This is a show stopping bug. In certain countries any application that
> uses
> >dates from sql where a timezone is not supplied is going to crash!!!
> 
> Is this something I can fix locally, or do I have to wait for the next
> beta?
> 
> -------
> Regards,        Graham Chiu
> gchiu<at>compkarori.co.nz
> 
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