[Zope] Getting a date into an object title - DON'T Disregard

[Tim Cook]

"Ronald L. Chichester" wrote:
> 
> Thanks Tim and Andy.
> 
> I think I figured out what the problem is.  Getting ZopeTime into the title isn't the
> problem.  Getting the _user input_ that is meant to be a date into the title is the
> problem.
> 
> Silly me, I was treating a user input from an HTML form for a date _as_ a date value,
> when in reality it is only a string.  If I had tried myTitle = '%s' % contact_date

A couple of very applicable HOWTOs:

http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/howto/FormVariableTypes
http://www.zope.org/Members/Duncan/RecogniseTypes

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