Logged In: YES user_id=619560 Yes, this has been a long time coming. Collaboration by e-mail with people working on completely different projects can be quite a challenge! Thanks for getting this checked in. When 2.4a1 comes out I will be providing a new version of cx_Oracle that takes advantage of these functions. I just noticed that I missed the macros that are defined in datetime.h that were not modified with my patch -- specifically those used to acquire the components of the date/time objects. Should those be documented as well? I'm assuming the answer is yes -- so would it be helpful if I did so and attached a patch to this set of patches or do I need to create a new patch?