some explanations needed on "prettydate"

[Pystar]

Hi guys, 

I am storing my timestamp in my database using the datetime.datetime.now() directive. And on display I want to use prettydate in my views, 

I am doing this in my views {{=prettydate(row.timestamp, T)}} but it fails silently by not displaying anything. I have tried it in the web2py shell and it works but doesnt work in my views, 

what am I doing wrong?

Need replies ASAP

[Anthony]

prettydate() does this:

 try:
     dt = datetime.datetime.now() - d
 except:
     return ''

In the view, maybe try:

{{import datetime}}
{{=datetime.datetime.now() - row.timestamp}}

and see what error is generated to help figure out the problem.

Anthony

[Bruno Rocha]

It also happens for me, I did not found a better way to solve, but I think prettydate needs to be rewritten for accurate responses.

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