Really, the overcomplication is just for aesthetics, to avoid displaying
00:00:00 on forms and in the widget. The field settings I have seem to
work well, so I'll just splat them into all necessary fields.
On Saturday, February 15, 2014 1:27:30 PM UTC, Niphlod wrote:
>
> 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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