why the overcomplication ? as other backends that don't support date every 
date field in DAL gets turned to a datetime (with 0 hours, minutes and 
seconds) and it's automatically handled.

On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 6:31:06 PM UTC+1, Tim Nyborg wrote:
>
> I'm connecting to an MSSQL 2005 db, which only has the Datetime format 
> (Date was added in 2008).
> Is there a standard way to treat a Datetime as a Date in web2py for forms 
> and formatting?
>
> I've done the following, and it works thus far, but it seems a bit hackish.
> Field('BirthDte', 'datetime',
>         widget=SQLFORM.widgets.date.widget,
>         requires=IS_DATE(),
>         represent = lambda value, row: value.strftime("%#d %b %Y"))
>
>

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