[ZCM] [ZC] 692/ 7 Resolve "DateTime fails to pass european dates"

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Issue #692 Update (Resolve) "DateTime fails to pass european dates"
 Status Resolved, Zope/feature medium
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= Resolve - Entry #7 by chrisw on Jul 30, 2004 7:45 am

 Status: Deferred => Resolved

Has now been fixed, see the zope.conf option for this.
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= Defer - Entry #6 by ajung on Dec 16, 2002 9:43 am

 Status: Accepted => Deferred

will be fixed in 2.7(?) with the implementation of 
http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/BetterEuropeanDateTimeSupport


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= Comment - Entry #5 by stevea on Nov 22, 2002 12:13 pm

MJ wrote:
> Ambiguous dats like that have to be interpreted either as
> US dates or European dates

Or, an exception is raised when an ambigous date format is used.

A means should have be provided for users of DateTime to be explicit about what interpretation they want for an ambiguous date.

Although, it is too late for DateTime now, as people will be using it implicitly.

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= Edit - Entry #4 by ajung on Nov 22, 2002 11:35 am

 Changes: submitter email, edited transcript, classification (bug => feature), new comment

That's fine. So I make this ticket a feature request and work
on a proposal for solution to make DateTime more suitable
for Europeans.
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= Comment - Entry #3 by mj on Nov 22, 2002 11:25 am

This is not a bug, don't try and fix it!

Ambiguous dats like that have to be interpreted either as US dates or European dates. Currently, it is interpreted as a US date. Changin this to a European interpretation will break applications that expect the first!
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= Accept - Entry #2 by ajung on Nov 22, 2002 4:53 am

 Status: Pending => Accepted

 Supporters added: ajung


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= Request - Entry #1 by ajung on Nov 22, 2002 4:53 am

DateTime("5.12.2002") is interpreted as May-12-2002
instead of December-12-2002.
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