>Bingo!!! Thank you so much... I personally never use that command line and this is an inherited app... (the bane of us all)... I found it switched 'on' way deep in their... and only on that subsystem for some reason....
Great!
OK, so no you have several options. You can SET SYSFORMATS OFF, you can change the settings in the Control Panel, or you can accept changes the user makes - but use unambiguous commands like date(nYear, nMonth, nDay) to create dates.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)