Forum OpenACS Development: Output Format for showCalendar Function on core.js

Right now you can specify the output format of the date on an ad_form element like this:

{start_date:text(text)
{label "Start Date"}
{html {id sel1}}
{after_html { < input type='reset' value=' ... ' onclick=\"return showCalendar('sel1', 'y-m-d');\"> \[y-m-d\]
}}

this will return the date like: '2005-09-24'

You can specify any combination of the letters y m d D M where D will return the name of the day (e.g. Mon, Fri, Sat, etc.) and M will return the name of the month (e.g. Oct, Sep, Dec, etc.)

For example

If the format is 'D, d M y' it will return 'Fri, 24 Sep 2005'.

If the fomat is 'd.m.y' it will return '29.09.2005' so you can also use different separators like "," or "." or "/" or "-".

I feel the international standard date and time notation should be returned as the default if nothing is specified in ad_form.

yyyy-mm-dd

Here is a link that describes the standard:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

Also, after a quick search I noticed a difference in the notation of the output options (e.g. on that page they type YYYY-MM-DD). Are you using some tcl formating option for dates?