thanks, Niphlod it works now.
maybe the first time I created without the datetime attribute confused PostGres. Then when I added datetime, it kept saying it was a string and no auto-calendar popped up. I deleted the physical table and the re-created one is fine. thanks, Alex -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.