merge from ajung-european-datetime-support-branch

doc/CHANGES.txt

@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ Zope Changes
        support for obtaining a more useful value from other headers if a
        front-end proxy is in use. See doc/ENVIRONMENT.txt for details.
 
+     - DateTime module: added support to parse international dateformats. The
+       Datetime constructor has a new "datefmt" parameter to enforce the
+       parsing of a date as "us" or "international" date. The new field        
+       descriptor field descriptor "date_international" can be used to
+       enforce this behaviour inside the ZPublisher. See also 
+       doc/ENVIRONMENT.txt to check with the DATETIME_FORMAT 
+ 
+
     Bugs Fixed
 
      - Collector #771: ZCatalog failed to index DTML Document if the name

doc/ENVIRONMENT.txt

@@ -199,12 +199,12 @@ Security related
     ZSP_OWNEROUS_SKIP
 
         If set, will cause the Zope Security Policy to skip checks relating
-	to ownership, for servers on which ownership is not important.
+        to ownership, for servers on which ownership is not important.
 
     ZSP_AUTHENTICATED_SKIP
 
         If set, will cause the Zope Security Policy to skip checks relating
-	to authentication, for servers which serve only anonymous content.
+        to authentication, for servers which serve only anonymous content.
 
     DISALLOW_LOCAL_PRODUCTS
 
@@ -272,11 +272,9 @@ Structured Text
 
     STX_DEFAULT_LEVEL
 
-       Set this variable to change the default level for <Hx> elements.
-       The default level is 3.
-
-
-DTML
+        Set this variable to change the default level for <Hx> elements.
+        The default level is 3.
+        
 
     ZOPE_DTML_REQUEST_AUTOQUOTE
 
@@ -288,6 +286,15 @@ DTML
         HTML quoted when interpolated with a <dtml-var> or &dtml-;
         construct.
 
+DateTime
+
+    DATETIME_FORMAT 
+
+        Set this variable either to "us" or "international" to force
+        the DateTime module to parse date strings either with
+        month before days before year or days before month before
+        year. If unset the default behaviour of DateTime is untouched
+        and parses ambigious date formats as US date.
 
 Esoteric
 

lib/python/DateTime/DateTime.py

@@ -12,16 +12,21 @@
 ##############################################################################
 """Encapsulation of date/time values"""
 
-__version__='$Revision: 1.84 $'[11:-2]
+__version__='$Revision: 1.85 $'[11:-2]
 
 
-import re, math,  DateTimeZone
+import os, re, math,  DateTimeZone
 from time import time, gmtime, localtime, asctime
 from time import daylight, timezone, altzone, strftime
 from types import InstanceType,IntType,FloatType,StringType,UnicodeType
 try: from time import tzname
 except: tzname=('UNKNOWN','UNKNOWN')
 
+
+_default_datefmt = os.environ.get('DATETIME_FORMAT', "us").lower()
+if not _default_datefmt in ('us', 'international'):
+    raise ValueError, "DATETIME_FORMAT must be either 'us' or 'international'"
+
 # To control rounding errors, we round system time to the nearest
 # millisecond.  Then delicate calculations can rely on that the
 # maximum precision that needs to be preserved is known.
@@ -456,7 +461,7 @@ class DateTime:
     __roles__=None
     __allow_access_to_unprotected_subobjects__=1
 
-    def __init__(self,*args):
+    def __init__(self,*args, **kw):
         """Return a new date-time object
 
         A DateTime object always maintains its value as an absolute
@@ -601,6 +606,13 @@ class DateTime:
             effect of this is as if you had taken the value of time.time()
             at that time on a machine in the specified timezone).
 
+            New in Zope 2.7:
+            A new keyword parameter "datefmt" can be passed to the 
+            constructor. If set to "international", the constructor
+            is forced to treat ambigious dates as "days before month
+            before year". This useful if you need to parse non-US
+            dates in a reliable way
+
         In any case that a floating point number of seconds is given
         or derived, it's rounded to the nearest millisecond.
 
@@ -613,6 +625,9 @@ class DateTime:
         timezones recognized by the DateTime module. Recognition of
         timezone names is case-insensitive.""" #'
 
+        datefmt = kw.get('datefmt', _default_datefmt)
+        assert datefmt in ('us', 'international')
+
         d=t=s=None
         ac=len(args)
         millisecs = None
@@ -656,7 +671,7 @@ class DateTime:
                 if arg.find(' ')==-1 and arg[4]=='-':
                     yr,mo,dy,hr,mn,sc,tz=self._parse_iso8601(arg)
                 else:
-                    yr,mo,dy,hr,mn,sc,tz=self._parse(arg)
+                    yr,mo,dy,hr,mn,sc,tz=self._parse(arg, datefmt)
 
 
                 if not self._validDate(yr,mo,dy):
@@ -860,7 +875,7 @@ class DateTime:
         tz = self.localZone(ltm)
         return tz
 
-    def _parse(self,st):
+    def _parse(self,st, datefmt=_default_datefmt):
         # Parse date-time components from a string
         month=year=tz=tm=None
         spaces        =self.space_chars
@@ -987,8 +1002,13 @@ class DateTime:
                     day=ints[0]
                     month=ints[1]
                 else:
-                    day=ints[1]
-                    month=ints[0]
+                    if datefmt=="us":
+                        day=ints[1]
+                        month=ints[0]
+                    else:
+                        day=ints[0]
+                        month=ints[1]
+    
             elif ints[0] <= 12:
                 month=ints[0]
                 day=ints[1]
@@ -1685,3 +1705,4 @@ class strftimeFormatter:
 def Timezones():
     """Return the list of recognized timezone names"""
     return _cache._zlst
+

lib/python/DateTime/tests/testDateTime.py

@@ -306,6 +306,19 @@ class DateTimeTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(dts[5], "%+03d%02d" % divmod( (-offset/60), 60) )
 
 
+    def testInternationalDateformat(self):
+
+        for year in range(1990, 2020):
+            for month in range (1,13):
+                for day in range(1,32):
+                    try: d_us = DateTime("%d/%d/%d" % (year,month,day))
+                    except: continue
+
+                    d_int = DateTime("%d.%d.%d" % (day,month,year), datefmt="international")
+                    self.assertEqual(d_us, d_int)
+
+
+
 def test_suite():
     return unittest.makeSuite(DateTimeTests)
 

lib/python/Products/OFSP/help/DateTime.py

@@ -195,6 +195,13 @@ class DateTime:
         effect of this is as if you had taken the value of time.time()
         at that time on a machine in the specified timezone).
 
+        New in Zope 2.7:
+        A new keyword parameter "datefmt" can be passed to the 
+        constructor. If set to "international", the constructor
+        is forced to treat ambigious dates as "days before month
+        before year". This useful if you need to parse non-US
+        dates in a reliable way
+
     If a string argument passed to the DateTime constructor cannot be
     parsed, it will raise DateTime.SyntaxError. Invalid date, time, or
     timezone components will raise a DateTime.DateTimeError.