[Zope3-Users] [Zope-dev] Problems with schema Date field - year is truncated

[Markus Kemmerling]

Hi Hermann,

The z3c.form.converter.CalendarDataConverter, on which the  
DateDataConverter is based, explicitely sets the date format to  
'short'.  Overriding the latter with a 'length' attribute set  to  
'medium' will handle german dates as "dd.MM.YYYY".

Regards,
Markus Kemmerling

Am 27.08.2008 um 17:52 schrieb Hermann Himmelbauer:

> Hi,
> I'm somehow stuck on the following problem:
>
> I defined a Date() schema field in one of my interfaces. I  
> currently have a
> de-AT locale, so I'd like to enter the value of my date as e.g.  
> "dd.MM.YYYY",
> e.g. "01.02.1980" in my z3c.form based form.
>
> What happens is, that the locale silently assumes a format of  
> "dd.MM.yy",
> which means, that the "YY / 80" is truncated and "01.02.19" is  
> stored in my
> database, when updating.
>
> So, I'd like to know if:
>
> - It is possible to change the format to "dd.MM.yyyy", which is a  
> lot more
> appropriate for my application (a birth date)
> - Make the application more strict, meaning that no data is  
> truncated in any
> case.
>
> I tried to stick my nose into i18n.locales but was somehow  
> overwhelmed by what
> I found. However, the following somehow seems to explain it:
>
> </dateFormatLength >
>     <dateFormatLength type="medium">
>            <dateFormat >
>                <pattern>dd.MM.yyyy</pattern>
>             </dateFormat>
>     </dateFormatLength >
>     <dateFormatLength type="short">
>            <dateFormat >
>                <pattern>dd.MM.yy</pattern>
>            </dateFormat>
>     </dateFormatLength >
>
> Nevertheless I don't know if there's a way to select a specific  
> dateFormat,
> e.g. "medium" in my case.
>
> Best Regards,
> Hermann
>
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