[Zope3-Users] Fwd: question about request.locale and creation time

[Shailesh Kumar]

Sorry, the mail went only to Philipp by mistake.

Hi Philipp,
Thanx for the pointers. I went through the sections of your book regarding
this. I guess I now understand my problem better. The problem is about the
time-zone and not about formatting. The Creation and Modification time
stamps seem to be the UTC time stamps, and I want the display to be
according to local time zone.

How can I do it?

With regards,
-Shailesh



On 1/14/07, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
>
>
>
> Shailesh Kumar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I look at the Creation time and Modification time in any of the
> > container views, it shows me the UTC time.
> >
> > Looking at
> > zope.app.container.browser.contents.py
> > < http://zope.app.container.browser.contents.py>: Line 174
> >
> > I found that:
> >
> >             formatter = self.request.locale.dates.getFormatter(
> >                 'dateTime', 'short')
> >
> >             created = self.safe_getattr(dc, 'created', None)
> >             if created is not None:
> >                 info['created'] = formatter.format(created)
> >
> >             modified = self.safe_getattr(dc, 'modified', None)
> >             if modified is not None:
> >                 info['modified'] = formatter.format(modified)
> >
> > is being used to compute them.
>
> No, the local formatter is used to *format* dates according to the
> current locale. 8th of March this year, for example would be "3/8/2007"
> in the U.S. English locale, but "08.03.2007" in the German locale.
>
> > I am puzzled, how does the browser set its locale? I guess this must be
> > a very basic question. But I am not able to figure it out.
>
> request.locale is set according to the most preferred language/locale
> returned by the IUserPreferredLanguages adapter for the request. The
> default adapter reads browser's the Accept-Language header. More
> advanced adapters could use cookies or something else that the user can
> influence though the website directly.
>
> My book talks about this in detail: http://worldcookery.com
>
>
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