I'm developing an application that will have users from different time zones. The intent is to store everything in UTC and translate to user's timezone at display/edit time. I started working on my own solution when I came across this post <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/web2py/IS_DATE$20timezone/web2py/jIEUIb8wxtg/rWe5g-IhCwAJ>which seems to indicate that if you specify a timezone parameter to the IS_DATE() validator web2py will do all the timezone translation for you.
However every time I specify the timezone parameter to IS_DATE() I will get no dates validated no matter what Without specifying a timezone it obviously works: def test_date(): db.define_table('test_table',Field('usr_comment'),Field('comment_date', requires=IS_DATE('%Y-%m-%d'))) form =SQLFORM.grid(db.test_table, create=True,editable=True, user_signature=False) return dict(form=form) However this: def test_date(): db.define_table('test_table', Field('usr_comment'), Field('comment_date' , requires=IS_DATE('%Y-%m-%d', timezone='America/Chicago'))) form = SQLFORM.grid(db.test_table, create=True, editable=True, user_signature=False) return dict(form=form) or even this: def test_date(): from pytz import timezone mytz = timezone('America/Chicago') db.define_table('test_table', Field('usr_comment'),Field('comment_date', requires=IS_DATE('%Y-%m-%d', timezone=mytz))) form=SQLFORM.grid(db.test_table, create=True, editable=True, user_signature=False) return dict(form=form) Always tells me "Enter date as 1963-08-28" when submitting the form and never allows me to add/edit values (of course I'm entering dates as 2015-10-25). Am I missing something or is there a bug with IS_DATE and timezone handling? Thanks, Julian -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.