>>>All the dates I am working in are from 1999 to 2030 (bond maturity dates). But, I think if the error was going to occur on your machine, it would probably occur with any numeric string, regardless of content or length.
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>>Hi Erik,
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>>I just ran through 1 million iterations, generating a random date in the specified range each time and no error. So I'd say that this is peculiar to NT.
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>Or just me :-).

Been there many, many times.< g >