# HG changeset patch
# User Sandrine Ribeau <sandrine.ribeau@logilab.fr>
# Date 1239754680 25200
# Node ID e71f704aaf407e94b21093be357ad4497ae93326
# Parent  fb5f014b861d387563f2e518815e4f2939920c3f
[doc] Adds HowTo format date.

diff -r fb5f014b861d -r e71f704aaf40 doc/book/en/D010-faq.en.txt
--- a/doc/book/en/D010-faq.en.txt	Tue Apr 14 17:17:34 2009 -0700
+++ b/doc/book/en/D010-faq.en.txt	Tue Apr 14 17:18:00 2009 -0700
@@ -238,3 +238,13 @@
   This will yield additional WARNINGs, like this: ::
 
     2009-01-09 16:43:52 - (cubicweb.selectors) WARNING: selector one_line_rset returned 0 for <class 'cubicweb.web.views.basecomponents.WFHistoryVComponent'>
+
+* How to format an entity date attribute?
+
+  If your schema has an attribute of type Date or Datetime, you might
+  want to format it. First, you should define your preferred format using
+  the site configuration panel ``http://appurl/view?vid=systemepropertiesform``
+  and then set ``ui.date`` and/or ``ui.datetime``.
+  Then in the view code, use::
+    
+    self.format_date(entity.date_attribute)