I'm still having difficulty with this. I want to add a date to a character string ( dated user comments ) to store into a sqltable. <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('CurrentDate', ZopeTime().Date)"> The docs say that this returns a date string ( as opposed to a date object? ) <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('mystring', 'date: '+CurrentDate)"> produces this error Error Type: TypeError Error Value: illegal argument type for built-in operation And if I try this <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('mystring', 'date: '+_.str(CurrentDate))"> mystring is then 'date:' ------- Regards, Graham Chiu gchiu<at>compkarori.co.nz http://www.compkarori.co.nz/x.php?/Shopping http://www.compkarori.com/dynamo - The Homebuilt Dynamo http://www.compkarori.com/dbase - The dBase bulletin