[Zope] Re: Fomatting Dates for the UK

[Paul Browning]

> From: Paul Smith <Paul.Smith@bristol.ac.uk>
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 17:39:13 +0100
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Fomatting Dates for the UK
> 
> Hi
> 
> ZOPE newbie alert:
> 
> I am trying to get ZOPE to publish dates in UK format. I am fine with 
> getting todays date formatted as required by calling a dtml-var, but 
> the problem is with putting up 'future-static' dates such as the example
> in the Content Managers Guide, where you want to do something like 
> "This site will go live on..." using 'expected_date' which is a 
> property with type date. This automatically formats 20 June 2000 to 
> 2000/06/20 and I can't figure out how to change it.
> 
> Any ideas welcome!

I recall finding http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/CustomDateFormats
helpful to sorting this one out.

Paul

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