In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sibylle Koczian wrote: > I'm writing a cgi script which only needs to run in a small LAN. I tried > to show dates in a reasonable format by using > > import locale > import datetime > > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') > ... > dt = datetime.date.today() > print dt.strftime('%x') > > This works well in other scripts or at the interactive prompt. It > doesn't work in a cgi script: in the browser the date is shown as > 'mm/dd/yyyy' which is _not_ my 'Locale's appropriate date > representation' as the documentation for strftime calls it.
That's the web server's locale appropriate date representation then. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list