Prepolulate datetime field internationalization problem

[Sebastián Tromer]

Hello everyone!

I'm prepopulating a form made with the FORM helper.
In the form I have 2 INPUTs of type DATETIME:

INPUT(_name='from', _class='datetime', requires = IS_DATETIME())

I'm prepolutaing this field with:

form.vars.from = request.now

and I'm getting something like this: 2015-04-14 19:31:36.242654

this works OK if the locale is 'en' but when I have my browser with locale 'es'
the input should be prepopulated with the format '%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S.mmmmmm'
because web2py (somehow) knows that it must validate using 'es' locale.

So, the question is: How can I prepopulate a datetime input field that pass validation in any locale?

Thanks!

[Massimo Di Pierro]

One solution is:

form.vars.from = IS_DATETIME()(request.now)[0]

[Sebastián Tromer]

That didn't work, but looking at the code of appadmin and gluon/validators.py I found a possible solution:

form.vars.from = IS_DATETIME().formatter(request.now)

this is working OK.

Thanks Massimo!