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

Understood, but I think that same 'preference' flexibility is what has caused a standard system to all of a sudden 'change' it's mind on operating correctly. I will have to play with this some, and in the future remove all references to changing SYSFORMAT.... I prefer to use the system setting...

Ric