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Posted by Travis Low on 09/29/84 11:04
Hi David,
I completely disagree. This is a display function.
Think of it this way: the fact that something happened at 6:00 pm in some other
time zone is meaningless to me. It doesn't tell me when it REALLY happened, in
the time zone that I am familiar with. I need to adjust the date so it has
meaning for me. The REAL time is unaffected -- it is simply being interpreted.
Similarly, I would have no problem with a temperature conversion routine in the
template. If the temperature is stored in degrees Centigrade, then converting
it to Fahrenheit does not change the meaning of the data in any way -- instead,
it makes the data accessible to me.
It's really no different from interpreting the number 2 as Dienstag in one
locale, and Tuesday in another.
Grüße,
Travis
David Zülke wrote:
> Hi Travis,
>
> stuff like this really belongs into the business logic, not into the display
> logic. The _way_ a date/time is shown is controlled by the display logic,
> but not the _value_ of the date/time itself.
>
> Cheers and a Happy New Year to you,
>
> David
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Travis Low [mailto:travis@dawnstar.com]
>>Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 7:29 AM
>>To: smarty-general@lists.php.net
>>Subject: [SMARTY] date offset
>>
>>Happy new year, everyone.
>>
>>I have a customer in Australia who uses a server in California. I'd like
>>to
>>give them a configurable offset value (plus or minus hours) that could be
>>used
>>to change the time they're seeing. I know I could muck with the time from
>>within the application itself, but ultimately, I think it would be better
>>if
>>the end-user could set the value, so that (for example) users in different
>>timezones can adjust the times to suit their locale. Here is a hack of
>>modifier.date_format.php that seems to work:
>>
>>function smarty_modifier_date_format($string, $format="%b %e, %Y",
>>$offset=0,
>>$default_date=null)
>>{
>> echo "<h1>$offset</h1>";
>> if($string != '') {
>> return strftime($format, smarty_make_timestamp($string) +
>>($offset*3600));
>> } elseif (isset($default_date) && $default_date != '') {
>> return strftime($format, smarty_make_timestamp($default_date) +
>>($offset*3600));
>> } else {
>> return;
>> }
>>}
>>
>>Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work without swapping $offset and
>>$default_date, and I fear that may break existing code. Does anyone have
>>any
>>ideas, and could something like the above be included in the next Smarty
>>release?
>>
>>cheers,
>>
>>Travis
>>
>>--
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>><http://www.dawnstar.com>
>>
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>
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