I'm assuming Time.now.iso8601 should work? Do I have a muffed installation maybe? Do I have a muffed brain? :-) Any other ideas? C:\TEMP>ruby -v ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32] C:\TEMP>ri Time.iso8601 ----------------------------------------------------------- Time#iso8601 iso8601(fraction_digits=0) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alias for #xmlschema C:\TEMP>irb irb(main):001:0> Time.now.iso8601 NoMethodError: undefined method `iso8601' for Wed Aug 10 13:21:07 Central Daylig ht Time 2005:Time from (irb):1 irb(main):002:0> Time.now.xmlschema NoMethodError: undefined method `xmlschema' for Wed Aug 10 13:21:12 Central Dayl ight Time 2005:Time from (irb):2 irb(main):003:0> exit -- Chris http://clabs.org