Save the worry... lol... SYSFORMATS if OFF, as it is for the whole susbsystem...

Ric

>>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....
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>Great!
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>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.
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>Hilmar.