I posted this bug almost a year ago - http://classic.zope.org:8080/Collector/1709/view I'm afraid I've stopped worrying about it and taken evasive action to the extent that I don't even know if it's fixed in the current cvs. The above collector item is still pending. Dieter, like many people just might have given the anonymous role view permission in his root folder. Many others, like me, don't usually do that. From: Dieter Maurer <dieter@h...> Date: Wed Aug 22, 2001 9:02 pm Subject: Re: [Zope] What the f... with bobobase_modification_time in a method of a ZClass ? Gilles Lenfant writes:

I want to display the date of an object built from a ZClass from a DTML method with <dtml-var bobobase_modification_time> but I got the authentification box when running this method. Hm....

Works for me (ZopeCVS (2.4+)). Dieter -- Ross Lazarus Visiting Associate Professor in Medicine, Channing Labs, 181 Longwood Ave., Boston MA 02115, USA. Fax: +617 731 1541, Office: +617 525 2730