[Zope] Validating a Date

[Andreas Jung]

If you have a fixed date format, you can split into day,month and year
and pass these as dedicated arguments to the DateTime constructor.
See the DateTime API for details.

-aj

--On Donnerstag, 6. M=E4rz 2003 02:48 +0100 Oliver Bleutgen =
<myzope@gmx.net>=20
wrote:

> Peter Bengtsson wrote:
>> At 02:01 2003-02-28 -0600, Edward Muller wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know of a good module/product/hack that I can feed a date =
to
>>> and it will let me know if it's valid or not?
>>>
>>> It should check leap years ... end days of the month and the like...
>>
>>
>> try:
>>     ok_date =3D context.ZopeTime('2003/13/13')
>>     print "Yes, date OK"
>> except:
>>     print "No, not OK"
>>
>> return printed
>
> Nope, ZopeTime(DateTime) is very (too) liberal in what it accepts for
> this purpose:
>
> context.ZopeTime('2002/30/3')
>
> returns "2002/03/30"
>
> cheers,
> oliver
>
>
>
>
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