I am probably missing something simple here, however I can not get this to work properly.... Given mtime = YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS-ZZ as returned from PostgreSQL, how do I get the following to work without errors? <dtml-in "sqlquery(...)"> .... <dtml-var mtime fmt="%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:S %Z"> .... </dtml-in query> This returns: Errot Type: ValueError Error Value: unsupported format character 'a' (0x61) If i drop the %a from the fmt string as follows: <dtml-in "sqlquery(...)"> .... <dtml-var mtime fmt="%d %b %Y %H:%M:S %Z"> .... </dtml-in query> I get the following Zope Error: Error Type: Type Error Error Value: illegal argument type for built-in operation Mtime was initially declared as a string in the ZSQL Method arguments list, and changing it to date had no effect. I have searched the documentation and all examples I have found that use strftime formatting indicate that this should work. I have successfully been able to change the format using the to_char(mtime) PostgreSQL function, but then order by mtime does not work properly and besides, I would like to make the format style customizable from within Zope instead of on the SQL server. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.... Regards, Jarrod Kinsley