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Some interesting tidbits about saving\/updating a date\/time field of a\nresource.<\/p>\n

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Why<\/h2>\n

The purpose of this guide is to explain how Zotonic stores date-time\ndata so that you can work with it in your own modules.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Assumptions<\/h2>\n

Readers are expected to be interested in authoring Zotonic Modules.\nTo be successful you should be fairly experienced with Erlang\nprogramming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How<\/h2>\n

When updating a resource<\/span><\/a> by passing a proplist to\nm_rsc:update\/3<\/span><\/code>, Zotonic has a way of looking for specific name\npatterns in the proplist that tells it what items are date\/time fields\nand which ones are not. This allows Zotonic to split those off the\nproplists and use the name to derive information about the date, such\nas expected format, if the default time should be 00:00 or 23:59, and\nthe actual field name that should be updated.<\/p>\n

Here is an example format: dt:ymd:0:date_end<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

Literally this means …<\/p>\n