Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-lang/tcl/localization-procs.tcl
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-lang/tcl/localization-procs.tcl,v
diff -u -N -r1.6 -r1.7
--- openacs-4/packages/acs-lang/tcl/localization-procs.tcl	3 Dec 2002 17:26:54 -0000	1.6
+++ openacs-4/packages/acs-lang/tcl/localization-procs.tcl	12 Dec 2002 13:14:33 -0000	1.7
@@ -414,6 +414,10 @@
                            (or have an 'on this day in history' style page that goes back a good few hundred years).
     @return                A date formatted for a locale
 } {
+    if { [empty_string_p $datetime] } {
+        return ""
+    }
+
     if { ![exists_and_not_null locale] } {
         set locale [ad_conn locale]
     }