Be sure that your "set date to" settings match your date format and use cmonth() to return the month as a word. you can then trim this to just the first 3 characters.

the other parts can be returned with day() and year() and turned into strings with str()

I am assuming that your date is stored as a date for these functions, if not you'll need to use ctod() on your date as a string to get it as a date format.

so this gets your strings for the current day:

str1 = left(cmonth(date()),3)
str2 = alltrim(str(day(date())))
str3 = alltrim(str(year(date())))

hope that helps.

Ken.