hi to all i'm running zope 2.1.2 on win95 binary distribution for development. A) ouput question: i have to use : <dtml-var ab fmt=dd>.<dtml-var ab fmt=mm>.<dtml-var ab fmt=year> to show: 28.2.2000 <dtml-var ab fmt=%d.%m.%Y> shows: 27.2.2000 Is there a better way to get the right date the European way? B) input question: i have a form asking for a date. see these examples 28.2.99 -> 1999/02/28 2/28/99 -> 1999/02/28 28.2.00 -> Invalid Date-Time String 2/28/00 -> 2000/02/28 28.2. -> Invalid Date-Time String can i prevent the errors? thanks gidon