[Zope] Converting an input date string

[Andreas Jung]

--On Samstag, 9. November 2002 10:36 +0100 Steffen Hausmann 
<steffen@hausmann-family.de> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:02:49AM +0100, Dieter Maurer wrote:
>> McDonnell, Larry writes:
>>  > How do I convert an input date string "10/22/02" to "2002/10/22" in a
>>  > date format?
>> You split it at "/" and rearrange the peaces:
>>        month,day,year= datestring.split('/')
>>        return '20%02d/%02d/%02d' % (year,month,day)
>
> I had a similar problem and your post helped me a lot.
>
> But if I try to output my date (e.g. '2002/12/15 12:45:00') with
>
> <dtml-var dateStart fmt="%d.%m.%Y">
> <dtml-var dateStart fmt="%H:%M">
>

This works only if dateStarty is an instance of DateTime but not a *string*
containing a date representation. You should use instead:

<dtml-var "_.DateTime('2002/12/15')" fmt="%d.%m.%y" >

-aj