>I probably don't have enough experience with views to help. Might lead you astray. so i'll back off, and let someone more experienced try. Sorry

No problem, I think the view may actually be the part of the problem here. I think I'll go to plan B, which is to store an extra char field to hold the values I need to display. I've had nothing but trouble with date/datetime fields in this project. (Grrrrrr!) Thanks anyway, I think plan B will work pretty well :~)