How do I: a) Get the time in terms of seconds from the epoch (standard unix time_t ala 1970)? b) Translate a time_t value under Zope into human readable ala ctime() or DateTime? I don't see that the DateTime class can do this per the DTML guide and I have an external DB that relies on time_t based indexing. Do I really have to write an external method? -- J C Lawrence Internet: claw@kanga.nu ----------(*) Internet: coder@kanga.nu ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...