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Is this a possible fix for my problem with ecto's date when you try  
to post to an earlier date?

Jock

On 23 Oct 2006, at 02:02, quills-dev at lists.etria.com wrote:

> Author: tomster
> Date: Mon Oct 23 01:02:41 2006
> New Revision: 32146
>
> Modified:
>    Quills/trunk/MetaWeblogAPI.py
> Log:
> bugfix for Zope versions > 2.9.3:
>
>  * Zope 2.9.3 introduced recognition of XML-RPC !DateTime objects  
> (previously it treated them as strings, which prevented proper  
> treatment of them by clients), however, the `DateTime` class of  
> Python's [http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-objects.html  
> xmlrpclib] doesn't offer any way to create an actual `datetime`-  
> (or `DateTime`-) object, so I introduced a string-based hack to  
> create a valid !DateTime instance.
>  * For the same reason it is no longer advisable to write a string  
> representation of the modified date into the XML-RPC dict.
>
> This change probably breaks !MetaWeblog-functionality for pre Zope  
> 2.9.3-based instances. Affected users will either have to update or  
> provide a patch that isn't quite as oblivious to the Zope version  
> running it as this... sorry, but I'm absolutely scratching my own  
> proverbial itch here...
>
> Modified: Quills/trunk/MetaWeblogAPI.py
> ====================================================================== 
> ========
> --- Quills/trunk/MetaWeblogAPI.py	(original)
> +++ Quills/trunk/MetaWeblogAPI.py	Mon Oct 23 01:02:41 2006
> @@ -77,7 +77,17 @@
>                              struct.get('dateCreated',
>                                         DateTime.DateTime())
>                              )
> -        return ed
> +        # due to strange developments in Zope2.9 resp. xmlrpclib  
> we need to parse
> +        # the XMLRPC-DateTime object's string representation and  
> then construct a
> +        # 'proper' DateTime instance from a string assembled from  
> those parsed bits.
> +        try:
> +            val = ed.value
> +            datetime_string = "%s-%s-%s%s" % (val[0:4], val[4:6],  
> val[6:8], val[8:])
> +            return DateTime.DateTime(datetime_string)
> +        except AttributeError:
> +            # we obviously didn't receive a xmlrpclib DateTime  
> instance, so we
> +            # can return it unchanged:
> +            return ed
>
>      security.declareProtected 
> (CMFCorePermissions.ModifyPortalContent, 'newPost')
>      def newPost(self, blogid, username, password, struct, publish):
> @@ -326,7 +336,7 @@
>
>          struct = {
>              'postid': obj.UID(),
> -            'dateCreated': obj.effective().rfc822(),
> +            'dateCreated': obj.effective(),
>              'title': obj.Title(),
>              'description' : body,
>              'categories' : [cat.getId() for cat in  
> obj.getCategories()],
>
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