[Zope] ZopeTime questions (DTML mainly)

[Kevin Dangoor]

Hi,

-----Original Message-----
From: Samu Mielonen <ex@uiah.fi>
To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org>
Date: Friday, October 15, 1999 5:53 AM
Subject: [Zope] ZopeTime questions (DTML mainly)


>I'm trying to figure out the ZopeTime object (or is it a method?)
>and how to use it.
>
>I've tried to render Finnish date and time, which is of format:
>
> dd.mm.yyyy, hh:mm:ss
>
>so for example:
>
> 15.10.1999m, 21:04:05
>
>means 15th of October, 1999 at four past nine pm (and 5 seconds)
>
>Rendering this visible with <dtml-var ZopeTime fmt=...> seems
>straightforward enough (here, without seconds):
>
> <dtml-var release fmt="%d.%m.%Y, %H:%M">
>
>but the problem is that %H (and %d, %m %Y too because of this?)
>are not from the current time zone (but from GMT?).

I have encountered this myself. One method that the ZopeTime object has is
toZone. So, I think you could do:
<dtml-var "release.toZone(YourTimeZone).strftime('%d.%m.%Y, %H:%M')">

I don't know how this would compare to other solutions from an efficiency
standpoint...

Kevin