From: "Florian Aßmann" Date: 2007-07-01T19:40:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Time.to_s Hi Jonas, the Object.to_s method should not expect an argument since it is per default an alias for Object.name. If you want a custom time format you should overwrite the instance method. There are several ways to accomplish this. For example you derive from Time: class CustomTime < Time def to_s strftime 'Simon says: Do your %d sit-ups on every %A.' end end HF Florian