i do this (a little clumsily) via <dtml-var t1 fmt="year">-<dtml-var t1 fmt="mm">-<dtml-var t1 fmt="dd"> provided t1 is a date var. (this is from the very useful zope quick ref., http://www.zope.org/Members/ZQR) hth peter. On 12 Apr 2000, Lennart Staflin wrote: :Hi all, : :I have some problems with DateTime in Zope. I generally want dates in :the form 'YYYY-MM-DD'. But I can't figure out an easy way to get this :with DateTime objects. There is a ISO method that produces both date :and time: 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS'. But nothing to get only the date. : :Perhaps one could wish for some addtions to the DateTime class. Some :possibilities are, in order of preference: : :1. Configurable default data format. :2. An ISODate method. :3. strftime method that uses localtime and not gmtime. : :Any other suggestions how to do this? : : -- _________________________________________________ peter sabaini, mailto: sabaini@niil.at -------------------------------------------------