Retrieving formatted date from Interbase DB into Zope

[Brad Clements]

I used Kinterbas for a while, but switched to gvibDA.

in either case, you'll probably find it easier to pass your date into a
DateTime object, then use DateTime methods to format the output.




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"Ashley" <ashleylloyd at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:64bbc67.0301030805.71b023d0 at posting.google.com...
> I am attempting to use KinterbasdbDA.1.0 to connect from a Zope
> installation (Zope 2.5.1, Python 2.1.3, on Win 2k) to an Interbase
> database.
>
> I have a problem with retrieving any data of type date. It only seems
> to want to format the date as yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS.ss. Any attempt to
> force the format (eg. fmt="aCommon", fmt="%d/%m/%Y") results in an
> error like:
>
> Error Type: TypeError
> Error Value: not enough arguments for format string
>
> or
>
> Error Type: TypeError
> Error Value: not all arguments converted
>
> Can anyone suggest a way around this? I'm sure there is one, I just
> can't find it!?!
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ashley




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