>Hi,
>
>My stored procedure has the following code:
>

>SET @TargetDate = CONVERT(datetime, @TargetDate)
>

>Which converts a string @TargetDate to a datetime value.
>The above works when used with American customers
>
>But when using with a European customer where the string value of @TargetDate (before the conversion) is set by ToShortDateString(), the result is an error (The conversion of a varchar data type to a smalldatetime data type is out-of-range value).
>
>Is there a 3rd parameter I can use with the above CONVERT() function to get around the problem?
>
>TIA

And this works?
I doubt it, you can not redefine type of the variable from n/var/char to datetime.