Can you please upen a ticket about this on google code? It looks like a bug.
On Saturday, 24 November 2012 10:37:00 UTC-6, Maria Mitica wrote: > > Hello > > I have the following problem: > - i have a sqlform with a date field (which I customized with a jquery > widget, that, among other things, changes the date format into dd/mm/yy) > which works fine (displays the correct format after date selection) but if > the form validation fails than the "saved" value of the date field gets > reformatted back to '%Y-%m-%d' default format. > > this is the field value in the table: > > Field('data', 'date', widget=date_widget, > requires=[IS_NOT_EMPTY(error_message="Completarea campului este > obligatorie"), > > IS_DATE('%d/%m/%Y', error_message = 'Data trebuie sa aiba formatul > ZZ/LL/AAAA') ], > label="Data Nasterii", comment="") > > db.table.data.represent = lambda value,row : value.strftime('%d/%m/%Y') > > and the date widget: > > def date_widget(f, v): > wrapper = DIV() > inp = SQLFORM.widgets.string.widget(f, v, _class="jqdate") > jqscr = SCRIPT( > "jQuery(document).ready(function(){\ > jQuery('#%s').datepicker({\ > dateFormat:'dd/mm/yy',\ > showOtherMonths:true,\ > selectOtherMonths:true,\ > changeYear:true,\ > yearRange: '-80:+0',\ > changeMonth:true\ > });\ > });" % inp['_id'], > _type="text/javascript") > wrapper.components.extend([inp, jqscr]) > return wrapper > > also i have included the translation in my language file: > '%Y-%m-%d' : '%d/%m/%Y', > '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S': '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S', > '%d.%m.%Y': '%d.%m.%Y', > '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S': '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S', > '%d/%m/%Y': '%d/%m/%Y', > '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S': '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S', > > and changed the default format in web2py_ajax.html: > var w2p_ajax_date_format = "{{=T('%d/%m/%Y')}}"; > var w2p_ajax_datetime_format = "{{=T('%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S')}}"; > > i'm running out of ideas so i thought maybe you could help. > > thanks > 'web2py newbie' :) > > > --