<div>I tried solving this problem as follows. Don't know if its the best solution, but works for me as my application is meant only for Intranet environments. </div>
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<li>I subclassed <font size="2">zope.app.container.browser.contents.</font><font size="2">Contents.</font></li>
<li><font size="2">In the subclass I overrided _<font size="2"><strong>extractContentInfo </strong>method</font></font></li>
<li><font size="2">Created a <font size="2">LocalTimezone class as described in Python manual by subclassing tzinfo</font></font></li>
<li><font size="2">Converted the created and modifed datetime objects from dublin-core information to local time zone</font></li>
<li><font size="2">Used this class to create the Container views</font></li></ul>
<div>The time information looks now fine for me. </div>
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<div>Is there any better way? </div>
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<div>With regards,</div>
<div>-Shailesh</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Shailesh Kumar</b> <<a href="mailto:shaileshk@gmail.com">shaileshk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Sorry, the mail went only to Philipp by mistake.
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<div>Hi Philipp, </div>
<div>Thanx for the pointers. I went through the sections of your book regarding this. I guess I now understand my problem better. The problem is about the time-zone and not about formatting. The Creation and Modification time stamps seem to be the UTC time stamps, and I want the display to be according to local time zone.
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<div>How can I do it? </div>
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<div>With regards,</div><span>
<div>-Shailesh</div></span>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Philipp von Weitershausen</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:philipp@weitershausen.de" target="_blank">philipp@weitershausen.de
</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br><br>Shailesh Kumar wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> When I look at the Creation time and Modification time in any of the
<br>> container views, it shows me the UTC time.<br>><br>> Looking at<br>> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://zope.app.container.browser.contents.py/" target="_blank">zope.app.container.browser.contents.py
</a><br>> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://zope.app.container.browser.contents.py/" target="_blank"> http://zope.app.container.browser.contents.py</a>>: Line 174<br>><br>
> I found that:<br>><br>> formatter = self.request.locale.dates.getFormatter(<br>> 'dateTime', 'short') <br>><br>> created = self.safe_getattr(dc, 'created', None)
<br>> if created is not None:<br>> info['created'] = formatter.format(created)<br>><br>> modified = self.safe_getattr(dc, 'modified', None)<br>> if modified is not None:
<br>> info['modified'] = formatter.format(modified)<br>><br>> is being used to compute them.<br><br>No, the local formatter is used to *format* dates according to the<br>current locale. 8th of March this year, for example would be "3/8/2007"
<br>in the U.S. English locale, but "08.03.2007" in the German locale. <br><br>> I am puzzled, how does the browser set its locale? I guess this must be<br>> a very basic question. But I am not able to figure it out.
<br><br>request.locale is set according to the most preferred language/locale <br>returned by the IUserPreferredLanguages adapter for the request. The<br>default adapter reads browser's the Accept-Language header. More
<br>advanced adapters could use cookies or something else that the user can<br>influence though the website directly.<br><br>My book talks about this in detail: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://worldcookery.com/" target="_blank">
http://worldcookery.com</a><br><br><br>--<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://worldcookery.com/" target="_blank">http://worldcookery.com</a> -- Professional Zope documentation and training
<br>2nd edition of Web Component Development with Zope 3 is now shipping!<br><br></blockquote></div><br></span></div></span></div></blockquote><br>