>>It certainly is an ugly solution but thanks for your help, I'll try it but I'll continue to search for a less-ugly solution. <g> <

Good luck, I doubt if you'll find one. All these hoops that Rick is jumping through are necessary to get datetime stuff to work the way it should. MS kinda dropped the ball on this one. =( We've done similar hoop-jumping for our DateTime control, although we started from a UserControl rather than subclassing the DateTimePicker class.

Have fun ...

~~Bonnie