It looks like there is already a workaround for this, but for what it's worth, here's how PH729C8 works on my machine.  I'm on 7.5.







ci: showclks.pubxl.telesup

SHOWCLKS/XL  A.10.00

DEBUG/iX C.45.05 



HPDEBUG Intrinsic at: 417.00007258 PROGRAM+$198

PRIV=$3 := $0



  *************************************************************

  ***                                                       ***

  ***   Greenwich Mean Time : THU, JUL 14, 2011,  2:05 PM   ***

  ***   GMT/MPE offset      : -4:00:00                      ***

  ***   MPE System Time     : THU, JUL 14, 2011, 10:05 AM   ***

  ***                                                       ***

  *************************************************************



                 **** C Library Information ****  



        Current value of Time Zone(TZ) variable : EST5EDT

        CTIME function return :  Thu Jul 14 10:05:19 2011





ci: pdl vers=ph729c8



P D L   (7.29.C8)      Level 999

Copyright 1997 COGNOS INCORPORATED



> create dictionary foo not preloaded

0 Errors  0 Warnings.

> system options century included &

>                float nonieee &

>                special name characters "+-_*/?'#%@" &

>                title "PH729C8 - Date Test"

> load

0 Errors  0 Warnings.

> e





END OF PROGRAM

ci: quiz vers=ph729c8 dict=foo



Q U I Z   (7.29.C8)      Level 999

Copyright 1997 COGNOS INCORPORATED



> set nohead

> set page len 0

> report sysdate format mmddyyyy

> go



  07/14/2011



Records selected:  0

Lines printed:     1

Pages printed:     1



> e



END OF PROGRAM

ci: 





So it seems to work OK in my environment.  Not sure why James was getting the results he saw.



Regards, Bob



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