>Steve,
>Use the dtot() function to convert from date to datetime.

Here's what I have now:

set strictdate to 0
LOCAL lcControl
lcControl = THIS.PARENT.icDataControl
IF !EMPTY(THIS.Caption)
	 &lcControl = DTOT(CTOD(SUBSTR;
         (DTOS(THIS.PARENT.idCurrentMonth),5,2)+"."+;
	 THIS.Caption+"."+LEFT(DTOS(THIS.PARENT.idCurrentMonth),4)))
ELSE
		&lcControl = DTOT({})
ENDIF
THIS.PARENT.Release()	

My form field that is expecting the return result is coming up with nothing because I have 'set century on' and 'set date to ansi'. How do I manipulate things from this point? I was 'this close'...