something i have found with Zope is that doing complex stuff is always fairly easy (?) but trying to do easy stuff that any programming language can do without even thinking seems to be very hard... Perhaps someone can help me with this one.... I have a press lounge with a number of press releases in it. Each of these press documents has a property called 'publishDate' which is in the date format. I am trying to use ZopeTime (which displays the time and date) to check this publishDate property and if the two match print out the content if not, do not. Basically, i need to be able to assign ZopeTime to a variable and strip off the time part. You can do this if you print it to the screen with: <!--#var ZopeTime fmt=Date--> but how do i assign this to somekind of variable?? Please help as my hair is beginning to go grey and my teeth are beginning to fall out..... See ya, P. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com