Sorry, I don't see how to quote a prior message. This is what worked for me from Charles.
"Divide by 100 -- remainder is hundredths of a second. Divide quotient by 60 -- remainder is seconds. Divide quotient by 60 -- remainder is minutes. Quotient is hours (24 hour clock). SMFxxDTE is in an amusing packed format: 0cyydddF where c is the century offset by 19 -- that is, 01 => 2000; yy is the low order digits of the year; and ddd is the "Julian" day number of the year: 001 = January 1, ... 365 = December 31 (366 for leap years). " Janet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN