[Zope] date formatting question

[Dieter Maurer]

Kate Legere wrote at 2003-12-1 11:01 -0500:
 > This is silly but in the ZPT I'm working on I can't get the bobobase
 > modification time to format in a non-ugly fashion
 > 
 > I tried :
 >   <a tal:attributes="href item/absolute_url"
 >            tal:content="item/bobobase_modification_time" fmt=aCommon>
 > title</a>
 > 
 > but it pretty much ignores the formatting suggestion.

Try:

  <a tal:define="modTime item/bobobase_modification_time"
     tal:attributes="href item/absolute_url"
     tal:content="modTime/aCommon">
     title
  </a>

-- 
Dieter