>Hi Craig, Tahks for the reply and I appreciate your forwarding me the link.
>The site deals with UTC and I cannot see definitievly there where you can get a date from a sting.
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>On reading all the replies here, and chasing the links, following seems to be the best solution:
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>DateTime dt = new DateTime(2011, 05, 10);
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>WOULD everybody agree that this will ALWAYS, definitively, no matter what the LOCAL is, return 10th May, 2011 ??? (and not 5thOctober)
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>If so, my question is answered, if not, I'll have to keep searching !!

Yes, definitely, always.
But that wasn't your original question which was using a string.......