[Zope] Formatted date anomaly ...

[Martijn Pieters]

From: Darran Edmundson [mailto:dee124@rsphy1.anu.edu.au]
> 
> Here's a strange one.  I have a property StartDate (type date)
> set to "01/01/2000".  Can someone please explain why the DTML
> snippet:
>      <dtml-var StartDate> <dtml-var StartDate fmt="%Y"> 
> renders as:
>      2000/01/01 1999
> 
> (More info on Zope formatting of dates and times can be found in
> the HowTo:
>     http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/CustomDateFormats)
> 

From the exact same How-To that you metion:

  "Note that the output is GMT-based. So you cannot use these codes
directly to format date and time values for say European timezones."

In that sentence lies the answer to your question.

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