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

[Dan Shafer]

Thanks, Casey, on two fronts. First, this worked! Problem solved. Second, I 
never heard of ZopeTime. I don't find it in the Zope Book anywhere. It is 
certainly cleaner to use than (_.DateTime()), which I always have syntax 
issues with when I try to format its output.

At 11:00 AM 5/1/2002 -0400, Casey Duncan wrote:
>Try:
>
><input type="text" name="start_date"
>          value="<dtml-var ZopeTime fmt="%b %d, %Y">">
>
>Be sure to include the outer quotes on the value attribute.
>
>hth,
>
>-Casey
>
>On Wednesday 01 May 2002 10:51 am, Dan Shafer allegedly wrote:
> > OK, thanks for the continuing help.
> >
> > I'm generating the contents of this particular field in a DTML Document
> > inside a <FORM> tag with this line (beginning and ending angle brackets
> > removed to avoid rendering problems)::
> >
> > input type="text" name="start_date" value=<dtml-var
> > "(_.DateTime().strftime(:%b %d, %Y"))">
> >
> > As I think I said in a previous note, but just for the sake of
> > completeness, if I change tthat to use a textarea object instead of a text
> > field, the date displays correctly. The text field is more than wide 
> enough
> > to accommodate the entire string.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions. This one has me completely baffled.