[Catalyst] Changing format of date field

[Bill Moseley]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Adam Witney <awitney at sgul.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a date field in a DBIx::Class Result class using
> InflateColumn::DateTime. When I pass this through a Catalyst/TT
> application, the date is presented in YYYY-MM-DD format.
>
> I can modify this to DD/MM/YYYY in my TT template with object.dmy('/'),
> but I would prefer to change the default DateTime stringification, however
> I am not quite sure where or how to do this?
>
> Any ideas greatly appreciated.
>

Seem like formatting in the template is the right place -- may want to have
different formats in different places in your app.   Then you might also
think about how best to localize.

One idea is to localize a set of names for a set of formats:

[% dt_fmt =3D c.localize( '_DT_DATE_ONLY' );   foo.some_dt_object.strftime(
 dt_fmt ) | html %]


I have also used a function that does the above, but also clones and sets
the time zone and locale based on the user's preferences:

[% user_time( foo.event_start, '_DT_TIMESTAMP_WITH_ZONE' ) | html %]




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Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org
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