Well, there is also a general LC_TIME localization problem with glibc: it thinks that Canada wants MM/DD/YY as the date. Official Canadian date format is YYYY-MM-DD. I reported this to glibc folks, but I don't recall what the bug# was. -- Michael Richardson <mcr at xdsinc.net> XDS Inc, Ottawa, ON Personal: http://www.sandelman.ca/mcr/