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David,

I looked through Data.pm in /Bric/Biz/Asset/Business/Parts/Tile and saw the
added code for date formatting, but when I try to grab a formatted date
string like this:

if (my $pubdate = $element->get_data('publication_date', $format_string)) {
$formatted_date = local_date($pubdate, "%B %Y");
}

the get_data returns nothing, and doesn't return an error, as far as I can
tell. Any ideas about what i'm doing wrong?

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: David Wheeler [mailto:david@wheeler.net]
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 9:06 AM
To: Philip Fibiger
Cc: bricolage-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bricolage-General] date formatting


On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 08:24 AM, Philip Fibiger wrote:

> However, now get_data on a bric date field no longer returns an ansi
> date
> string, it returns a typically formatted date string: Month Day, Year.
> Is
> there any way to change what kind of date string is returned, or
> should I
> just parse the new date string and get what I want.

There are two ways. You can a) change the date formatting preference,
or b) pass in a strftime format string to get_data(). The date will be
returned in your local time zone.

HTH,

David

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