>I have tried the date as {^12/15/2000 11:59:59} and like {^2000/15/12 11:59:59} and like {^2000/12/15 11:59:59}
>and I have the <= symbol before it.

Leroy,

You have to make sure that the string being passed is in a format that Oracle will recognize. Find out what the datetime delimiters are in Oracle and use those.