Hi everybody! I'm developing a module were I need to store a date inserted by the user who create the new node type. The problem is that I can't use the date inserted by the user... I just get a '1' instead of a formatted data or an integer representing dates. Is this date api working? Or maybe I'm doing things not good? My function looks like this: function goods_request_form(&$node, &$param) { ... $form['closing_date'] = array( '#type' => 'date', '#title' => t('closing date'), '#default_value' => $node->closing_date, '#description' => t('Insert here the date were the request will be closed'), '#required' => TRUE, '#weight' => -1 ); .... } function goods_request_insert($node) { print_r($node); die(); db_query('INSERT INTO {goods_request} (nid, vid, tid, closing_date, shipping_address) VALUES (%d, %d, %d, %d, %s)', $node->nid, $node->vid, $node->tid, $node->closing_date, $node->shipping_address); } the debugging putput of the print_r is stdClass Object ( [nid] => 6 [vid] => 6 [uid] => 1 [created] => 1134402069 [changed] => 1134402709 [type] => goods_request [title] => aaa [body] => aaa [closing_date] => 1 [shipping_address] => aaa [name] => administrator [date] => 2005-12-12 15:41:09 +0000 [status] => 1 [moderate] => 0 [promote] => 1 [sticky] => 0 [revision] => 0 [preview] => Preview [submit] => Submit [form_id] => goods_request_node_form [comment] => 2 [menu] => Array ( [title] => [description] => [pid] => 1 [path] => [weight] => 0 [mid] => 0 [type] => 86 ) [teaser] => aaa [validated] => 1 [is_new] => 1 ) Thanks Fabio