no, it's not possible. request.now is always calculated on the server, not on the client. That being said, the "today" on the server may not be the same today on the clients accessing your page from all the timezones in the world.... e.g. if you're providing some kind of function based on THEIR timezone (i.e. "press this button to delete all your appointments today") you really need to start fiddling with UTC and timezone differences.
On Monday, March 4, 2013 7:08:23 PM UTC+1, jjg0 wrote: > > I had asked a question about comparing datetimes here: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/web2py/2euU80vV2WE > The question was answered but I ran into another problem closely related, > so I made a sequel. Let's hope we don't have to suffer through a trilogy! > > Here is what I am doing: > > I have a model of appointments with a field for the date: > > . > . > Field('appointment_date', 'date') > . > .<other fields> > > and a controller that should grab all of today's appointments to be > printed out: > > appointment_dates = > db(db.appointments.appointment_date==request.now.date()).select() > > Here is the problem: > > request.now.date() appears to get the time based on the server. So If the > server is say 5 hours ahead, once 7:00pm my time hits I'm going to be > looking at tomorrows appointments. (server hits midnight, day cycles but > I'm still 7:00pm yesterday) > > When the controller goes to grab the day's appontments, is it possible to > somehow replace request.now.date() with the date of the users pc? > Otherwise I'm not really sure how else to go about this problem. > > Thanks > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
