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Still would send the date in the new format and manipulate it by doing a SUBSTR() on DTOS() of the date and rebuild a new date by using string manipulation to create a string in the proper format and then use EVALUATE() to translate in back to date.

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>What's wrong with sticking with a date in the format {^2000-01-31}?
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>>I just wanted to throw something past a few of you...
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>>I pass a lot of dates back and forth between forms and classes and this reccommendation to use date(nyear,nmonth,nday) instead of ctot and ctod if strictdate is set to 2 is creating a lot of extra work.
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>>I was thinking of adding 3 properties to my txtDate class called day, year and month.
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>>Would the proper time to update these fields be in the lostfocus event?
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>>Does this make sense to do ... Is there a better way to handle this?
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>>Thanks for any input,
>>Paul