>You may want to change the index from DTOC() to DTOS()
>Value Indexed Order
>Date DTOC() DTOS()
>04/01/1996 02/01/1998 19960401
>02/01/1998 02/05/1997 19970205
>03/01/1997 03/01/1998 19970301
>02/05/1997 04/01/1998 19980201

DTOS was the key. Thanks Don, Sylvain and Fedirico