[Zope] formatting a date string

[Loren Stafford]

I don't have a direct answer to your question; but I thought I'd mention (in
case you hadn't are ready seen them) the date-handling features built into
DTML that make this kind of transformation easy. Check out Appendix A of
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/DTML-HTML/DTML.html

-- Loren

----- Original Message -----
From: Graham Chiu <anon_emouse@hotmail.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: March 04, 2000 06:57 PM
Subject: [Zope] formatting a date string


>
> I'm trying to convert a string from
>
> 2000/12/31
> ( which is the format a date string is returned by a sql query )
>
> to
>
> 31-DEC-2000
>
> which is the format I need to enter date values into the database.
>
> I figured I need to index into 'JANFEBMARAPR.... '
>
> Now m_date is '2000/12/31', so I need to convert the 12 to an integer.
>
> but <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('month',_.string.atoi(m_date[5:7],10))">
>
> gives me a null value for month.
>
> -------
> Regards,        Graham Chiu
> gchiu<at>compkarori.co.nz
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