My self.request.locale object is set but seems to be wrong str(self.request.locale.id) => <LocaleIdentity (en, None, US, None)>
while I'd expect it to be something like Australia/Sydney. Is this a default locale? Alen On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 23:30 -0400, Gary Poster wrote: > On Aug 28, 2005, at 10:59 PM, Stephan Richter wrote: > > > On Sunday 28 August 2005 21:10, Alen Stanisic wrote: > > > >> what's the best way to obtain timezone from request object. I tried > >> > >> tz = pytz.timezone(ITZInfo(self.request)) > >> > >> but the adaptation failed. > > > > Getting a single time zone from the request is not sensible. > > Requests know > > only about the locale. But the locale can be applicable in multiple > > timezones. However, the locale usually knows about the timezones > > that are > > part of the locale. The object ``request.locale.dates.timezones`` is a > > mapping from timezone names (in the ICU format) to > > ``zope.i18n.interfaces.locales.ITimeZone`` objects. > > Other excitement: the timezone names in the ICU database do not all > correspond to the timezones in the olson timezone database (upon > which pytz is based). > > Generally, you want to let users choose their timezone. Guessing can > work like this though (Py 2.4): > > ALL_TIMEZONES = frozenset(pytz.all_timezones) > > for t in self.request.locale.dates.timezones.keys(): > if t in ALL_TIMEZONES: > return pytz.timezone(t) > > Maybe the ICU timezone object has alternate names to try in Olson; I > forget. > > > Unfortunately the version of the ICU data we are using does not > > have very good > > timezone support. At some point we need to switch to a newer > > version, which > > is much better with timezones as far as I remember. > > I looked around at this a month or two ago and didn't see much > improvements, actually. Maybe I'm wrong. > > Gary > _______________________________________________ > Zope3-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
