[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-checkins] CVS: Zope3/src/zope/publisher- browser.py:1.7

[Florent Guillaume]

Shane Hathaway  <shane@zope.com> wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> > Marius Gedminas wrote:
> >> I think zope.app.datetimeutils should be moved to zope.datetimeutils.
> > 
> > 
> > I think that's reasonable. Another option would be to make the publisher
> > marshaling facility pluggable, so that zope.app could plug in a specialized
> > date-time parser.
> 
> We'll need pluggable date time parsing anyway for I18N.  In Brazil, for 
> example, "13.02.03" and "13 Fevereiro 2003" are valid dates.
> 
> Just to make it more complicated, :-) the choice of date time parsing 
> routines probably ought not to be global, and should instead be 
> request-specific.  Some (many?) sites are multilingual.

Datetime parsing should not even be request specific but completely
application driven. I may want to display or edit side by side two
versions of the same document in different languages, in their native
language and formatting, which requires "manual" parsing.

Florent

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