[Zope] Still Plagued With Date Formatting Bug in Text Field

[Dan Shafer]

At 11:21 PM 4/30/2002 -0500, Mike Renfro wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 05:31:21PM -0700, Dan Shafer wrote:
>
> > I have a text field called start_date. I set its default value to today's
> > date by setting its value to (_DateTime().strftime("%b. %d, %Y"))
> >
> > The date shows up in the field, but only the first item of the formatted
> > string displays. In this example, the field contains "Apr." and that's it.
> > Now if I set the default value of a textarea to the same exact value, the
> > date displays correctly.
>
>Any chance your field is rendering as:
>
>  <input type=text name=start_date value=Apr. 30, 2002>
>
>instead of:
>
>  <input type=text name=start_date value="Apr. 30, 2002">

I suppose that's possible. There are no quotation marks showing in the 
field. But if I'm using strftime(), I don't see how this could'should be 
happening.

>?
>
>--
>Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
>931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu