On Wed, 23 May 2001, Peter Bengtsson wrote: > The date as it is printed is to me a bit too long and takes up too > much space. I suggest a formatting string like this: '%Y/%d/%m > %H:%M:%S' (would that suit the jankees?) Well, I don't know about the jankees, but the vikings would rather that ISO format would be used as default; %Y-%m-%d.