[Zope] oracle date-type

[Jim Sanford]

I don't use Oracle but VisualFoxpro tables via ODBC. I use a CTOD (Character
TO Date) or CTOT (Character TO Time) function on a string (since a string is
what is returned by a get or a post) . You should be able to do something
similar in Oracle.

Example:

update some_table set some_date=CTOD(<dtml-sqlvar a_date type=string>) where
recid=<dtml-sqlvar rec_id type=int>

(I use a javascript date validating function in the onChange of input fields
in the browser code to insure that I am getting a valid date string in the
REQUEST.)

other example:
         CTOT(<dtml-sqlvar "(ZopeTime()-.25).strftime('%m/%d/%Y
%I:%M:%S%p')" type=string>)
         (the -.25 gives me local time from Zulu time returned by ZOpeTime)

In my experience Zope returns a DateTime type for date or datetime fields
when returning variables from a select statement

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----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Hofer <hofer@oeh.tu-graz.ac.at>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 6:13 AM
Subject: [Zope] oracle date-type


> hi out there
>
> does someone know, how to query oracle-date fields using dcoracle??
> the sqlvar and sqltest-commands don't support type=date!!!
>
> thanks in advance
>
> mARTin hofer
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