dear lists, i've pushed changes into our local-time branch that contains an asdf-system-connection to cl-postgres: darcs pull http://www.common-lisp.net/project/cl-dwim/darcs/local-time Daniel, if you don't mind the extra dependency then please push it into the official. now it's possible to use postmodern so that it returns local-time values and at the same time does not interfere with other softwares that use its simple-date lib. the approach is similar to cl's readtables: (defparameter *custom-sql-readtable* (local-time:set-local-time-cl-postgres-readers (cl-postgres:copy-sql-readtable))) (let ((cl-postgres:*sql-readtable* *custom-sql-readtable*)) (cl-postgres:exec-prepared ...)) at the time of writing our postmodern branch contains a few extra patches. Marijn, please take a look at them and push to the official if you have no concerns with it. darcs pull http://www.common-lisp.net/project/cl-dwim/darcs/postmodern/ -- attila