DateTime.strftime %Z value is blank

[Chris McDonough]

DateTime.strftime behaves differently across Zope revisions, leading me to think that it's broken in 2.8+.

Given the code:

>>> from DateTime import DateTime
>>> d = DateTime()
>>> d.strftime('%a %d %b %Y %I:%M %p %Z')

The Zope 2.7 branch produces:

'Wed 19 Oct 2005 10:25 AM EDT'

The Zope 2.8 branch and Zope HEAD produces:

'Wed 19 Oct 2005 10:27 AM '

[Andreas Jung (ajung)]

Possibly the patch from #1780 introduced this new behavior. Given the fact that the timezone handling in DateTime seems to be borked in general and nobody understands why or knows how to fix....that's just a minor issue.

[Jens Vagelpohl (dataflake-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

DateTime.strftime now defers to datetime.datetime.strftime for rendering. A datetime.datetime object is constructed from the DateTime object and has its strftime method called. The datetime.datetime object gets no time zone information because it expects it as a datetime.tzinfo instance, and right now I can't see a simple way to provide a suitable instance.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The datetime project on Launchpad has been archived at the request of the Zope developers (see https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/683589 and https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/685285). If this bug is still relevant, please refile it at https://github.com/zopefoundation/datetime.