<toot> <toot> <blowing our own horn> The Personnel/Payroll System at the University of Illinois at Springfield was designed and built using Dictionary/3000, TurboImage and Transact/XL. The date fields, while stored in TurboImage as X8 fields, are known to Dictionary, Transact and BRW as 9(8) fields, with four (4) subfields: year as 9(4), month as 9(2), day as 9(2), month-day as 9(4). BTW, we knew about the year 2000 back in 1988, when we were still Sangamon State University. <toot><toot> Thomas B. Knoedler Programmer/Analyst Computer Services University of Illinois at Springfield [log in to unmask]