[Zope-dev] zope.i18n/z3c.form: Date localizing problems

[Hermann Himmelbauer]

Hi,
I'm currently implementing a simple date widget/field (birth date) in my 
z3c.form - based form. My two main languages are Englisch and German.

In German, I'd like to write the date such as dd.mm.yyyy
And in English, something suitable would be something like mm/dd/yyyy.

However, that does not seem to be possible. By default, the german format 
is "short", which is "dd.mm.yy" (inappropriate for a birth date). If I 
override the format to "medium" with something like this:

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class BSPDateDataConverter(DateDataConverter):
    """Better representation"""
    length = 'medium'
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  <adapter
      factory="zbsp.main.BSPDateDataConverter"
      />
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then the german date is fine, but the "medium" english date is in a format 
such as "MMM d, yyyy", which is e.g. "Sep 21, 1980". This is probably a date 
format nobody will be able to enter, I assume?

Is there a way to make this work for both languages?

Best Regards,
Hermann

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