Re: [Erlangweb-users] Displaying dates

[Graeme D. <gra...@gm...>]

On 20 March 2010 15:07, alexander barakin <ale...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 06:37, Graeme Defty <gra...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am sure everyone else is displaying dates fine, so it must be me,
>> but I have tried all the combinations i can think of.
>>
>> The data in my database looks good (as io:format-ed after reading) but
>> displays as an integer.
>>
>> My _types record contains this:
>>
>>          dob = {date,[{format, "YYYY-MM-DD"},
>>                    {description, "Date of Birth"}]}
>>
>> and my html looks thusly:
>>
>>        <p>date of birth: <wpart:lookup key="player:dob" format="date" /></p>
>>
>> but the display is just a number :
>>
>>         date of birth: 61661174400
>>
>> i.e. the date in seconds.
>
> because 61661174400 is in far future? (:
> $ date -d @61661174400
> Thu Dec 20 03:00:00 MSK 3923
>
> --
> wbr, alexander barakin aka sash-kan.
>

I don't think so.

61661174400   is  1953-12-17   in seconds.

1953-12-17 is what i put in the database and what i see read out of it
again, as I mentioned.

g