source: main/waeup.kofa/trunk/src/waeup/kofa/widgets/datetimewidget.py @ 8198

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"""Datetimewidgets that are compatible with pytz.
"""
import datetime
import pytz
from zope.formlib.textwidgets import DatetimeWidget

class PytzDatetimeWidget(DatetimeWidget):
    """pytz-conform, non-ambigous UTC datetimes.

    While the standard formlib datetime widget makes use of
    zope.datetime and creates also not too reliable (or ambigous)
    datetimes based on local servertime, this widget provides
    non-ambigous UTC datetimes with a pytz timezone (pytz.utc).

    Using this widget for datetime data we always get clean UTC
    datetimes compatible with other Python packages (as pytz is more
    wide-spread than zope.datetime).

    For datetimes in other timezones we compute the correct UTC value
    and store this. A way to help making sure, only UTC-based values
    go into the DB.

    From zope.datetime, however, we save the parser abilities to
    interpret even bizarre entered data as some datetime.
    """
    def _toFieldValue(self, string):
        """Turn string into a UTC-based datetime.

        The TZ data is guaranteed to be pytz.utc.

        """
        value = super(PytzDatetimeWidget, self)._toFieldValue(string)
        if not isinstance(value, datetime.datetime):
            return value
        if value.tzinfo is None:
            return pytz.utc.localize(value)
        return value.astimezone(pytz.utc)