[Zope] DateTime Issues

[Justin Dunsworth]

Ah-ha... that would make sense. Is there a way to display it without
stripping the timezone information or at least add another time preset?

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Andrew Milton <akm at theinternet.com.au>wrote:

> +-------[ Justin Dunsworth ]----------------------
> | I am having difficulties with time zones and rendering proper
> times/dates. My
> | time zone is GMT-6 (CST)... mysql reports the proper time/date, running
> | <dtml-var expr="e.strftime('%c')"> shows Zope has the right date, running
> a
> | query straight from the SQLMethod shows the proper time in relation to
> the
> | field in mysql. However, when I try and run the variable in the dtml
> document
> | it gives the time in GMT+0.
> | Â
> | For example... in mysql I have "2009-12-23 10:41:06" as the date of
> | the record. Running the SQL Method returns it as '2009/12/23 10:41:06
> GMT+0'
> | -- So far so good but when I run <dtml-var comment_date fmt="%m-%d-%y
> %H:%M">
> | in my document it gives: 12-23-09 04:41.
> | Â
> | I can get fmt=ISO (and other similar time functions) working and showing
> the
> | proper date/time but I'd rather have a little more control over how the
> time is
> | displayed. Is there any suggestions on what to do? I've looked many
> places and
> | couldn't find the answer.
> | Â
> | I am running Zope 2.11.4-final, python 2.4.4, win32
> | Â
>
> using fmt / strftime on Zope DateTime strips the timezone info and
> converts to localzone before rendering, which is why your times are out
> by 6 hours... your distance from GMT.
>
> --
> Andrew Milton
> akm at theinternet.com.au
>
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