Hi All, I am facing problem with date datatype. I have installed two versions of zope on diff computer. One is a zope 2.1.2 from a binary release and another is zope 2.1.6 i downlodaed as a source release. I am able to get MySQL database connection for source release and not for the one i downloaded as binary. Now my problem is when i want to insert a datatype in properties of a folder I wporks well with my binary release and not with the one i installed from sourece. My binary release one takes all of the following formats such as Jan. 07, 2000 jan. 07, 2000 2000/01/07 January 07, 2000 but the one which i compiled fro source takes none of them instead throws following error. Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: DateTimeError Error Value: Invalid date: Jan. 07, 2000 and asks me to search for the problem in the following files Traceback (innermost last): File /home/suhail/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 214, in publish_module File /home/suhail/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 179, in publish File /home/suhail/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 202, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: ElementWithAttributes) File /home/suhail/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 165, in publish File /home/suhail/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: manage_addProperty) File /home/suhail/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 102, in call_object (Object: manage_addProperty) File /home/suhail/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/OFS/PropertyManager.py, line 290, in manage_addProperty (Object: ElementWithAttributes) File /home/suhail/Zope-2.1.6-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Converters.py, line 157, in field2date File DateTime.py, line 523, in __init__ DateTimeError: (see above) Since I want to use MySQL as my database I need to work in source release i.e 2.1.6 from source. So please kindly help me regarding this matter. All help will be appreciated. Best Regards and Thanx Vikas MoreLinux.com - much of more.