[Zope] Converting an input date string

[Steffen Hausmann]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:49:15AM +0100, Andreas Jung wrote:
> --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" >

That's it.
Thank you very much.

MfG Steffen
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