On Thu, 4 May 2000, Manus Hand wrote: > I had the same problem, so I rolled my own (limited) strptime. I'd recommend looking at http://www.fukt.hk-r.se/~flognat/hacks/strptime.py Oleg. (All opinions are mine and not of my employer) ---- Oleg Broytmann Foundation for Effective Policies phd at phd.russ.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.