Handling missing Effective Date

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The Plone dexterity effective date is returns beginning of epoch [plone.dexterity/content.py at master · plone/plone.dexterity · GitHub] if the document is not published or private. Is there a good way to handle checking if effective date is set ? Thanks!

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context.effective() == FLOOR_DATE?

Of course, you need to import FLOOR_DATE. For use in a template, you may need to use security declarations to make this possible. For those cases, I have a module public with imports that should be available to restricted contexts and make its import possible with an allow_module("public").

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Why don’t you use EffectiveDate()? This one returns either None or the effective_date set on the content. With effective() you get either the content’s effective_date or creation_date or FLOOR_DATE.

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Thank you @dieter and @tmassman for great answers.