[Zope] DateTime - Date format problems

[Dieter Maurer]

James Davies wrote at 2003-2-4 22:40 +1000:
 > I believe I have discovered a link between the DateTime module and and 
 > stress related heart failure. After many annoying timezone related bugs 
 > (AEST != US/Eastern, despite pythons evil attempts to thwart me), I am 
 > down to one last major problem.
 > 
 > I have a Plone/Zope based website, and need users to be able to enter 
 > dates in the format DD/MM/YYYY. DateTime has deciced to make my life 
 > interesting by deciding that it will sometimes use that format, and 
 > other times use MM/DD/YYYY.
 > 
 > Is there a way to force DateTime to always use DD/MM/YYYY no matter 
 > how much it's feindish algorithm decides different? (strftime isnt an 
 > option either- I need to get it into the DateTime object correctly in 
 > the first place)
Some time ago someone posted the announcement of a
European DateTime implementation (it has not been Andreas!)

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