On 20 March 2010 16:24, alexander barakin <alex.bara...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:25, Graeme Defty <graeme.de...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 20 March 2010 15:07, alexander barakin <alex.bara...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 06:37, Graeme Defty <graeme.de...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am sure everyone else is displaying dates fine, so it must be me, >>>> but I have tried all the combinations i can think of. >>>> >>>> The data in my database looks good (as io:format-ed after reading) but >>>> displays as an integer. >>>> >>>> My _types record contains this: >>>> >>>> dob = {date,[{format, "YYYY-MM-DD"}, >>>> {description, "Date of Birth"}]} >>>> >>>> and my html looks thusly: >>>> >>>> <p>date of birth: <wpart:lookup key="player:dob" format="date" >>>> /></p> >>>> >>>> but the display is just a number : >>>> >>>> date of birth: 61661174400 >>>> >>>> i.e. the date in seconds. >>> >>> because 61661174400 is in far future? (: >>> $ date -d @61661174400 >>> Thu Dec 20 03:00:00 MSK 3923 >>> >>> -- >>> wbr, alexander barakin aka sash-kan. >>> >> >> I don't think so. >> >> 61661174400 is 1953-12-17 in seconds. >> >> 1953-12-17 is what i put in the database and what i see read out of it >> again, as I mentioned. > > 1953 — date before unix epoch, which starts at 1970-01-01: > $ date -d '1953-12-17' +'%s' > -506228400 > > -- > wbr, alexander barakin aka sash-kan. >
Erlang does not store dates in Unix format, but in a tuple of {YYYY,MM,DD}. Unix epoch is irelevant. In any case, even non-erlang programs are capable of displaying dates before 1970. So how is it done in ErlangWeb? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Erlangweb-users mailing list Erlangweb-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/erlangweb-users http://www.erlang-web.org/