Off the top of my head, I don't really know. Maybe Cathi will jump in here ... she always seems to have the right answers. <g>

~~Bonnie

>>I'm not sure if it's the same in VB as it is in C#, but in C# a datetime object can be manipulated with various methods to get the date in various formats. I don't know if this answers your question or not.
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>What I meant is where the default format is coming from? For example, presently, inside the ASP.NET Web Service, whatever date I received, is received in dd/mm/yyyy. I'm just wondering where this setting is coming from.
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>To be sure, I have defined this small function which always return the date in the format I want:
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>' Return the date in French format
>' expD1 Date
>Private Function GetDate(ByVal tdDate As Date) As Date
>   Return Format(tdDate, "dd/MM/yyyy")
>End Function
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>But, I was just curious to know if this is coming from the OS setting or from a setting inside the Web Service environment.