Ah-ha... that would make sense. Is there a way to display it without stripping the timezone information or at least add another time preset?
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Andrew Milton <a...@theinternet.com.au>wrote: > +-------[ Justin Dunsworth ]---------------------- > | I am having difficulties with time zones and rendering proper > times/dates. My > | time zone is GMT-6 (CST)... mysql reports the proper time/date, running > | <dtml-var expr="e.strftime('%c')"> shows Zope has the right date, running > a > | query straight from the SQLMethod shows the proper time in relation to > the > | field in mysql. However, when I try and run the variable in the dtml > document > | it gives the time in GMT+0. > |  > | For example... in mysql I have "2009-12-23 10:41:06" as the date of > | the record. Running the SQL Method returns it as '2009/12/23 10:41:06 > GMT+0' > | -- So far so good but when I run <dtml-var comment_date fmt="%m-%d-%y > %H:%M"> > | in my document it gives: 12-23-09 04:41. > |  > | I can get fmt=ISO (and other similar time functions) working and showing > the > | proper date/time but I'd rather have a little more control over how the > time is > | displayed. Is there any suggestions on what to do? I've looked many > places and > | couldn't find the answer. > |  > | I am running Zope 2.11.4-final, python 2.4.4, win32 > |  > > using fmt / strftime on Zope DateTime strips the timezone info and > converts to localzone before rendering, which is why your times are out > by 6 hours... your distance from GMT. > > -- > Andrew Milton > a...@theinternet.com.au >
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