[Zope] input/represent date the European way

[Gidon Friedman]

hi to all

i'm running zope 2.1.2 on win95 binary distribution for development.

A) ouput question:
i have to use :
<dtml-var ab fmt=dd>.<dtml-var ab fmt=mm>.<dtml-var ab fmt=year>
to show: 28.2.2000
<dtml-var ab fmt=%d.%m.%Y> shows: 27.2.2000

Is there a better way to get the right date the European way?

B) input question:
i have a form asking for a date. see these examples
28.2.99      ->  1999/02/28
2/28/99     ->   1999/02/28
28.2.00      ->  Invalid Date-Time String
2/28/00      ->  2000/02/28
28.2.          ->  Invalid Date-Time String

can i prevent the errors?

thanks

gidon