[Zope] DateTime - Date format problems

[Andreas Jung]

http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/BetterEuropeanDateTimeSupport


--On Dienstag, 4. Februar 2003 22:40 +1000 James Davies 
<jamesd@mena.org.au> wrote:

> I believe I have discovered a link between the DateTime module and and
> stress related heart failure. After many annoying timezone related bugs
> (AEST != US/Eastern, despite pythons evil attempts to thwart me), I am
> down to one last major problem.
>
> I have a Plone/Zope based website, and need users to be able to enter
> dates in the format DD/MM/YYYY. DateTime has deciced to make my life
> interesting by deciding that it will sometimes use that format, and
> other times use MM/DD/YYYY.
>
> Is there a way to force DateTime to always use DD/MM/YYYY no matter
> how much it's feindish algorithm decides different? (strftime isnt an
> option either- I need to get it into the DateTime object correctly in
> the first place)
>
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