[Zope] Zope 2 ODBC date errors

Brian Lloyd Brian@digicool.com
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:05:03 -0400


> Its that damm timezone problem in zope. If the python string 
> returned as
> your timezone is not known to zope it barfs. This problem has 
> been going on
> for months and I feel because it is something that only 
> effects non-american
> zope users there has not been enough effort into fixing it. 
> In fact I have
> fixed this bug and submitted it and am disappointed that it 
> has not made
> into the source yet as was promised. 
> This is a show stopping bug. In certain countries any 
> application that uses
> dates from sql where a timezone is not supplied is going to crash!!!
> 
> Please stop being so US centric and fix this bug!!!

Jay,

Did you submit this patch to the Collector, or just to the list?
I don't see it in the Collector anywhere, but if you'll copy it
to me via email I can put it in there to make sure it gets
attention.

Thanks!


Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
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