The idea was:
1. go to the management GUI and add a my_date property to the ZClass 2. use a format string as the value for the property 3. use name="mydate:date" in the relevant form 4. let Zope do the conversion ...
The reality is:
I cannot even accomplish step 2! Whatever I enter in the value field for the property for the ZClass (apart from an actual date which is readly converted in yyyy/mm/dd format), Zope complains about an 'Invalid Date-Time String'.
How I have done it: 1. Submit your date as a string. 2. Create a Python Script to convert a string to a DateTime object. This could be as easy as 'return DateTime(str)', which will understand a great number of formats. But I think the format you want will be understood as the US mm/dd/[yy]yy, so you may have to do a little work. See Zope Help > API Reference > DateTime in the Zope Help System. 3. In whatever the form is submitted to call above script and store the results. This property can then be used as a DateTime in display: '<dtml-var "timeProp.ISO()"> You could also have your script return a canonical string or a floating point number representation of the time, if you'd rather store that. Or you could use a Python Script to preprocess your REQUEST and convert your string to something DateTime understands (ISO) and then hand it to a method that stores it in a 'date' property. --jcc (space-time)