Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/variables.html =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/variables.html,v diff -u -r1.31 -r1.32 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/variables.html 7 Aug 2017 23:47:53 -0000 1.31 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/variables.html 8 Nov 2017 09:42:12 -0000 1.32 @@ -1,15 +1,30 @@ -
Starting with OpenACS 5.0 and the introduction of acs-lang, +
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+ + +</authorblurb> + +Starting with OpenACS 5.0 and the introduction of acs-lang, we recommend retrieving date/time information from the database in - ANSI format and then using lc_time_fmt to format it for display.
Example 12.1. Getting datetime from the database ANSI-style
db_multirow -extend { mydate_pretty } { + ANSI format and then using lc_time_fmt to format it for display. +Example 12.1. Getting datetime from the database ANSI-style
+ +db_multirow -extend { mydate_pretty } { select to_char(mydate, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') as mydate_ansi, ... ... } { set mydate_ansi [lc_time_system_to_conn $mydate_ansi] set mydate_pretty [lc_time_fmt $mydate_ansi "%x %X"] } -