Thanks Cetin. You saved my sanity.

Richard

>>Ok I'm having a little diffuculty with the parsing of a datetime from the MDTM FTP command.
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>>This is the return date I'm trying:
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>>20060607231948.552
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>>The code I've attempted as taken from the immediate window that I receive an exception on:
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>>? System.DateTime.ParseExact("20060607231948.552","yyyyMMddhhmmss", new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US").DateTimeFormat).ToString();
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>>What's missing?
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>>Thanks
>>Richard
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>  string result = System.DateTime.ParseExact("20060607231948.552",
>   "yyyyMMddHHmmss.fff",
>   new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US").DateTimeFormat).ToString();
>

Cetin