I am trying to fire SPT to change a date field in an iSeries(AS400) file but I get an error that the date time syntax is wrong.

LOCAL p1
p1 = "04/07/2009 06:38:18 PM"

teststring = "Update" +;
" webprddt7.drawmfai Set datstmp = '" + p1 + "' Where recseq = 81478"