[Zope3-dev] mini-RFC: times and timezones

[Stephan Richter]

On Saturday 26 February 2005 18:23, Gary Poster wrote:
> >>   * Views should generally display dates (stored with a UTC timezone)
> >> using something like this:
> >>         formatter = request.locale.dates.getFormatter('dateTime',
> >> length='short')
> >>         tz = zope.interface.common.tzinfo.ITZInfo(request)
> >>         return formatter.format(zope.i18n.switchTimeZones(date, tz)
> >
> > This looks like a mouthful.  Can we invent an obvious way to display
> > dates and times without having to remember weird three-line
> > incantations?  (Can anyone remember how to open a text file in Java
> > without looking it up?)
>
> A good point.  Before talking about it more, for what it's worth,
> here's the current revision of the three lines:
>
> from zope.interface.common.tzinfo import ITZInfo
> formatter = request.locale.dates.getFormatter('dateTime',
> length='short')

Have you read my book? :-)

I have outlined a TALES formatting namespace there:

<div tal:content="context/zope:modified/format:fullDateTime"> 

(http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/Zope3Book/talesns.html)

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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