I'm using Zope 2.6.1, and lots of the products I'm creating require that dates be entered in web forms and then stored as DateTime objects (since I need to compare them, etc.).

However, using the <input .. name="foo:date"> results in user-unintelligible error messages when the format is not correct, and the formats accepted are not very flexible.

Is there a better way? Is there a product that does a better job of handling date input/output? Hi Dustin,

I think it would be better if you read the date in at least two comboboxes (one for the month and one for the day) and one text input for the year. Then you have to concatenate the three values and create a DateTime object. So that you can make sure that the user won't make a mistake. If you want to validate the leap years and the end of the months, there are plenty of Javascript that do that, or you could check it after the form is sumited via python. Regards, Josef _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus