>Naomi,
>
>As always, I blame the Americans! <g>
>
>SET DATE AMERICAN is the "culprit", I use SET DATE SHORT
Ha-ha :) But if you want to make your function generic you would have to change settings back and forth for SET HOURS.
So, you may test each function implementation and the speed.
Though may be it's Mike's prerogative to do :)
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