>>Bob,
>>
>>They didn't work.
>>
>>Steve
>
>Did you match the CASE? Months uppercase, day and year lower case?
>
>Do you have set century on in your private data session?
>
>BOb

Well don't that beat all, M/d/yyyy works. Most bizarre regarding the mixing of upper and lower case letters.

Set Century is on as it is done automatically with each form load that has a private datasession.

Thanks,
Steve