[Zope] formatting a date string

[Jeff Hoffman]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Jeff Hoffman wrote:

> Another way of doing this, however, is something like the following:
> 
>   <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('mydate', _.DateTime('2000/12/31'))">
>   <dtml-var mydate fmt=dd>-<dtml-var mydate fmt=aMonth>-<dtml-var mydate
> fmt=year>

I forgot that you can also use C-style formatting, which reads much better
in this case:

  <dtml-var mydate fmt="%d-%b-%Y">

See:

  http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/CustomDateFormats

--Jeff

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