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chaley · 11-18-2011, 03:16 PM

Assuming you are writing a custom template function, the following gets the first three digits of the year with a trailing 0. It doesn't check for the 'undefined' date (1/1/0101).

Code:

def evaluate(self, formatter, kwargs, mi, locals):
	x = (mi.pubdate.year/10)*10
	return '%04d'%x

11-18-2011, 03:16 PM	#2
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,476 Karma: 8025702 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	Assuming you are writing a custom template function, the following gets the first three digits of the year with a trailing 0. It doesn't check for the 'undefined' date (1/1/0101). Code: def evaluate(self, formatter, kwargs, mi, locals): x = (mi.pubdate.year/10)*10 return '%04d'%x