Hi! I have a query returning a timestamp column from my interbase 6 database using the Going Virtual database adapter. I want to extract the values of the day/month/year ... from the variable. I tried this <dtml-var date_column fmt="%d"> for the day, but it doesn't work, probably because the variable's type is not the usual python DateTime. Similarly, this <dtml-var "_.DateTime(date_column).day()"> doesn't work either. <dtml-var date_column> renders a nice string representation, so I don't really understand why the above will not work, but that's certainly my lack of python concept. Ok, now I found out that date_column is actually of a type called Timestamp, which is defined in some way in the gvibda sources. That class has a method tuple, def tuple(self): return (self.year, self.month, self.day, self.hour, self.minute, self.second) which seems to return everything I need. But how do I call that thing? In fact, every time I write something like <dtml-var "date_column.tuple()"> or <dtml-var "_.date_column.tuple()"> I get some Unauthorized exception for no apparent reason. Wow... Now, much text, most important question: How can I extract the values I need from that variable? Can anyone help, please? Oliver -- Oliver Sturm / <sturm@oliver-sturm.de>