[Zope] date property format

[julio dinis]

Hello you all!

I have a timestamp, for instance, 2000/03/27 19:57:53.9808 GMT.

Lets say I have a document property, type date, where I want to
store this timestamp.

I found that the use of A or B is different:

A)

	<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('Prop1', ZopeTime())">
	<dtml-call "manage_changeProperties(REQUEST)">

B)
	<dtml-call "REQUEST.set('Prop1', ZopeTime())">
	<form action=manage_changeProperties>
	<input type="text:date" name="mydate" value=<dtml-var Prop1>
	<input type=submit>
	</form>


The difference arise when formating for presentation:

A)
	Code   :  <dtml-var Prop1 fmt="%Y/%m/%d %H:%M">
	Output :  2000/03/27 18:57

B)

	Code   :  <dtml-var Prop1 fmt="%Y/%m/%d %H:%M">
	Output :  2000/03/27 19:57

Note: the 1 hour difference.

	I guess the difference is in the "Prop1:date" that forces
zope to create the correct object with all the information needed to,
for instance, recognize the GMT change since March 26.

	I found that using another kind of presentation format will
bypass this problem, i.e, instead of fmt="c style", I use functions like 
dd(), mm(), timeminutes().

	Is there a way to make the code A tell zope to create a
correct date object(property)?

My best regards,
Júlio Silva
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