{"id":26,"date":"2009-11-17T19:13:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T18:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:11:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:11:28","slug":"localized-dates-with-zope-2-and-zope-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2009\/11\/17\/localized-dates-with-zope-2-and-zope-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Localized dates with Zope 2 and Zope 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine, you want to display a date in a nicer way than just 2009-11-17<\/em>. It’s not that difficult to localize it into e.g. German and output 17.11.2009<\/em>. But what, if you need to display\u00a0Mittwoch, 11.November 2009<\/em> instead?<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Calling\u00a0strftime(‘%A, %d.%B %Y’) <\/em> on your date object would format the date with month- and week names, but in most cases display the names in English and not in German, as we @gocept need it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Locales<\/em> provide you with the nessecary functionality to format your datetime<\/em> object in the users local format and language. You can choose from different templates (parameter length<\/em>) or even create your own templates.<\/p>\n

The example defines a method formatDate<\/em> which takes a datetime<\/em> object. It retrieves the users\u00a0locale<\/em> settings from the request<\/em>, chooses a format template and then “mixes<\/em>” everything together :-).<\/p>\n

So, to get something like “Wednesday, 17.November 2009”, you will need to submit the length<\/em> parameter full<\/em> as shown in the above example:<\/p>\n

class MyView(object):<\/span>\r\ndef formatDate(self, datetime_date):<\/span>\r\nif not self.request._locale:<\/span>\r\n# zope2 doesn't initialize the locale itself<\/span>\r\nself.request.setupLocale()<\/span>\r\nformatter = self.request._locale.dates.getFormatter(<\/span>\r\n'date', \u00a0length='full')<\/span>\r\nreturn formatter.format(datetime_date)<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Imagine, you want to display a date in a nicer way than just 2009-11-17. It’s not that difficult to localize it into e.g. German and output 17.11.2009. But what, if you need to display\u00a0Mittwoch, 11.November 2009 instead? Calling\u00a0strftime(‘%A, %d.%B %Y’) on your date object would format the date with month- and week names, but in … Continue reading “Localized dates with Zope 2 and Zope 3”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2072375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10221],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFP3y-q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2890,"url":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2017\/10\/24\/zope4-errorhandling\/","url_meta":{"origin":26,"position":0},"title":"Catching and rendering exceptions","author":"Michael Howitz","date":"October 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Error handling in Zope 4","rel":"","context":"In "en"","block_context":{"text":"en","link":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/category\/en\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2789,"url":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2017\/10\/25\/testing-zope-4beta2\/","url_meta":{"origin":26,"position":1},"title":"Migrating from Zope 2.13 to 4.0b2","author":"Michael Howitz","date":"October 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Beta-Testing Zope 4 together with PerFact Innovation","rel":"","context":"In "en"","block_context":{"text":"en","link":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/category\/en\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3229,"url":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2018\/06\/07\/migrate-a-zope-zodb-data-fs-to-python-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":26,"position":2},"title":"Migrate a Zope ZODB Data.fs to Python 3","author":"Michael Howitz","date":"June 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"TL;DR Use\u00a0zodbupdate. 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