Stigers, Gregory - ANDOVER ([log in to unmask]) wrote: : >Shoot. We hashed this out a bunch on the Year2000 mailing list. This should : >be child's play for COBOL programmers. Not child's play any longer. I.e. with the new intrinsic functions it will all be done for you and you won't remember the rules. DATE-OF-INTEGER and DAY-OF-INTEGER, INTEGER-OF-DATE and INTEGER-OF-DAY. Though they probably don't handle the year 4000 properly. :-(