[Zope] searching a date

[Dieter Maurer]

Steffen Hausmann writes:
 > i need to find a date stored in a ZCataolg.
 > the problem is that the date has a time in it ( '2000/01/01 12:00:00 
 > GMT+1' ) that i dont know.
 > 
 > i tried to turn the index type of the date to textindex, but that didn't 
 > work because only letters are stored in it ( 'GMT' ).
 > if this would work i could just search for the date because it gets 
 > seperated by blanks when it is put into the catalog ( '2000/01/01', 
 > '12:00:00', 'GMT+1' ).
You need a "range" query to successfully search dates.

Look in the Zope book or

  <http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/book/chap3.html>

for details.


As you are in the european timezone, you may be hit by a
bug in Zope's DateTime module:

    DateTime('yyyy/mm/dd') != DateTime(yyyy,mm,dd)

because one respects the time zone, the other does not.


Dieter