Re: How to edit dexterity types without needing to know about their behaviors

On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 11:45 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 
> On 14 Mar 2014, at 11:02, Johannes Raggam <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 10:18 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > On 14 Mar 2014, at 09:40, ajung <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > johannes raggam wrote
> > > > > 
> > > > > i'll fix that, probably at the wine and beer sprint. but then
> > > > > you'll
> > > > > still always get UTC datetime values instead of localized
> > > > > ones, if you
> > > > > get the start/end attributes directly from the context.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Consistency-is-king
> > > > > > Andreas
> > > > > 
> > > > > pragmatism is okay.
> > > > > johannes
> > > > 
> > > > I don't care about localized datetime values. Dates should
> > > > always be stored
> > > > and manipulated using UTC in the same way as any we should deal
> > > > (in theory)
> > > > with unicode strings internally. Localized datetime values and
> > > > utf-8 encoded
> > > > strings are value for presentation purposes, not for processing
> > > > purposes.
> > > 
> > > +infinity
> > 
> > read my mail and the code and you will see that datetimes are stored
> > in
> > UTC.
> > 
> 
> 
> Looking at the code you store with a fake timezone, which sounds just
> as bad if not worse. I strongly suggest to use date time instances
> without any tzone in UTC, and only add a timezone and convert as
> necessary on display/edit.

the fakezone is removed in the data_postprocessing step and the value
converted to UTC.

it was necessary to let z3c.form compare a floating-timezone value from
the widget to a possibly timezone aware value (UTC), already stored on
the content object.

looks like your're not carefully reading mails. or i'm not clear enough.



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