Sorry, the mail went only to Philipp by mistake. Hi Philipp, Thanx for the pointers. I went through the sections of your book regarding this. I guess I now understand my problem better. The problem is about the time-zone and not about formatting. The Creation and Modification time stamps seem to be the UTC time stamps, and I want the display to be according to local time zone.
How can I do it? With regards, -Shailesh On 1/14/07, Philipp von Weitershausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shailesh Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > When I look at the Creation time and Modification time in any of the > container views, it shows me the UTC time. > > Looking at > zope.app.container.browser.contents.py > < http://zope.app.container.browser.contents.py>: Line 174 > > I found that: > > formatter = self.request.locale.dates.getFormatter( > 'dateTime', 'short') > > created = self.safe_getattr(dc, 'created', None) > if created is not None: > info['created'] = formatter.format(created) > > modified = self.safe_getattr(dc, 'modified', None) > if modified is not None: > info['modified'] = formatter.format(modified) > > is being used to compute them. No, the local formatter is used to *format* dates according to the current locale. 8th of March this year, for example would be "3/8/2007" in the U.S. English locale, but "08.03.2007" in the German locale. > I am puzzled, how does the browser set its locale? I guess this must be > a very basic question. But I am not able to figure it out. request.locale is set according to the most preferred language/locale returned by the IUserPreferredLanguages adapter for the request. The default adapter reads browser's the Accept-Language header. More advanced adapters could use cookies or something else that the user can influence though the website directly. My book talks about this in detail: http://worldcookery.com -- http://worldcookery.com -- Professional Zope documentation and training 2nd edition of Web Component Development with Zope 3 is now shipping!
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