Dear List, i am using zope2.3.1, python 1.5.2 and interbase adapter gvibda096. I am accessing an interbase DATE type column via a zsql-method and want to reformat the returned date (yyyy/mm/dd), but i can't figure out how? I tried without success: 1.) <dtml-var "_.DateTime(_['gueltig_von'])"></td> Error: AttributeError 2.) <dtml-var "gueltig_von.strftime('%d.%m.%Y')"> Error: File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 334, in eval (Object: gueltig_von.strftime('%d.%m.%Y')) (Info: gueltig_von) File <string>, line 0, in ? File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py, line 127, in careful_getattr AttributeError: (see above) 3.) With this script: |#create_date(datum_string) | from string import split, join | list_date = split(datum_string,"/") | return list_date[2]+"."+list_date[1]+"."+list_date[0] <dtml-var "create_date(datum=_['gueltig_von'])"> Error Type: TypeError Error Value: argument 1: expected read-only character buffer, instance found File /usr/local/Zope-2.3.1-src/lib/python/Products/PythonScripts/PythonScript.py, line 336, in _exec (Object: create_date) (Info: ({'script': <PythonScript instance at 8cdc120>, 'context': <r instance at 8add6e8>, 'container': <Folder instance at 8cdbb98>, 'traverse_subpath': []}, (), {'datum': <Products.gvibDA.gvib.gvib.Date instance at 8cff7b8>}, None)) File Script (Python), line 5, in create_date TypeError: (see above) Could anybody think of another method to reformat the column values or has this problem to do with gvibda? TIA, Michael -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Schulz in medias res GmbH, D-79100 Freiburg