Re: [Erlangweb-users] Displaying dates

[alexander b. <ale...@gm...>]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:25, Graeme Defty <gra...@gm...> wrote:
> 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.

1953 — date before unix epoch, which starts at 1970-01-01:
$ date -d '1953-12-17' +'%s'
-506228400

-- 
wbr, alexander barakin aka sash-kan.