I see your point, but what if the user inserts into the datetime input field his/her current time? It will be different from the server's one (which I set to GMT), and prettydate will not work properly.
I confess that I am a bit confused about that. Best, David On 10 October 2012 11:16, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote: > not necessarily wrong, just a different timezone. If you're going to > display "prettydates" just in the browser for a "nicer visualization" you > should take into consideration that your server's locatime can be different > from the users's browser one. > > In a "perfect" setup, your server is on GMT (that is, utc), your app uses > request.utcnow in all the places instead of request.now (and > datetime.datetime.utcnow() instead of datetime.datetime.utcnow()). You'll > have prettydate working right. > > > On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:38:32 AM UTC+2, David Sorrentino wrote: > >> Hey Niphlod, >> >> Thank you for your help. >> >> The version is 2.0.9 (2012-10-05 09:01:45) dev >> >> I tried datetime.datetime.now() in my application and I just discovered >> that it is 2 hours late. This explains why prettydate is then 2 hours in >> hurry! >> The odd thing is that if I open a python console and try >> datetime.datetime.now(), I get the right time. O_O >> >> Something wrong with my server? >> >> Cheers, >> David >> >> >> On 10 October 2012 10:28, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> should calculate the difference between datetime.datetime.now() and your >>> date. what web2py version are you using ? >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:16:24 AM UTC+2, David Sorrentino wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello everybody, >>>> >>>> I am using the module *prettydate*, but it seems that it matches the >>>> datetime I give as input with a wrong timezone. >>>> >>>> For example now it's 10:12 am at my place. >>>> >>>> This is the datetime I give as input: 2012-10-10 10:12:00. >>>> >>>> This is the code: >>>> >>>> from gluon.tools import prettydate >>>>> pretty_d = prettydate(input_datetime, T) >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> And this is the result: "2 hours from now". >>>> It's 2 hours in hurry!! :) >>>> >>>> Am I wrong in something? >>>> >>>> I wish you a wonderful Wednesday, >>>> David >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- > > > > --
