[Zope-CMF] Re: Re: Effective Date inconsistencies

[Charlie Clark]

Am 23.06.2007 um 19:30 schrieb Alexander Limi:

> Wonderful, then my template code depends on some variable defined  
> in the code as the floor date as a private variable, meaning I  
> shouldn't introspect it. Very robust. ;)

It was just an example. As I am not sure what you want do it was  
supposed to be illustrative. It's easy enough to move the code into a  
content-type for your special case with a "has_effective" method  
which will give you your boolean.

ModificationDate() and EffectiveDate() should both return strings for  
presentation; there's another method that returns the string  
"unknown" if there is no value
modified() and effective() should both return dates for comparison

If additional information is required then derived types should  
implement the necessary additional methods. As Tres says, it might  
make sense to make __FLOOR_DATE, etc. less of an unknown quantity and  
it might make sense to make them portal or content type properties  
that can be set.

However, before any changes are made it would be nice to have a more  
detailed explanation as to why you need these things.

Charlie
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