[Zope] DateTime.strftime problem

[Dieter Maurer]

Ron Bickers wrote at 2005-1-30 03:47 -0500:
>I'm running Zope 2.7.4 and I'm trying to format the current time in the 
>format "yyyymmddhhmmssZ" (that is with a timezone of UTC), but I can't do 
>it.
>
>The DateTime API says that "A DateTime object's methods return values based 
>on the timezone context."  This appares to be the case for all except 
>strftime().
> ...
>  now.rfc822()
>  Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:35:58 -0800
>
>  now.strftime('%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S %Z')
>  2005/01/30 03:35:58 EST
>
>It looks like Collector Bug 1127 (http://zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1127/) 
>changed strftime() to always work in the local timezone, instead of always 
>working in GMT as it did before.  But shouldn't it respect the timezone of 
>the DateTime object as do the other methods?  Is this a bug?

I yesterday looked at the implementation of "DateTime.strftime" (Zope 2.7.2).
Apparently, it tries to take the timezone into account.

And it works for me:

>>> now=DateTime()
>>> now
DateTime('2005/01/30 19:32:08.823 GMT+1')
>>> now.strftime('%H')
'19'

-- 
Dieter