>AS you should have been. The explanation I posted was gleaned from reading other's solution to this problem, and until this afternoon, I had never tested it myself. I performed some similar tests to yours, and came up with the same conclusion: datetime fields store what they display. Sorry for temporarily misleading you.
Erik, did you see my second post? (I forgot to copy you on that one.) What do you think about those strange hex values for date-time fields?
01/10/2000 13:32:22 or 62 68 25 00 6F BE E7 02 in hex
01/10/2000 13:32:23 or 62 68 25 00 57 C2 E7 02 in hex
Peter
Peter Robinson ** Rodes Design ** Virginia