>I would like to use this simple code but have run into a problem if the date >of birth is below 1930. I'm not sure if the operating system has changed >some attributes or if I have misinterpreted the code. I suspect it is >me.....However, I THINK, that I will have a problem anyway since some of the >birthdays I will have to enter will be before 1904. Does anyone have a >solution. The problem isn't really with the date, it's with DATE2SECS returning a "negative" value. I've dealt with this before by "cheating" and adding 50 years or so to all my dates, then subtracting later. Of course, this just _changes_ the range of "working" dates... Bill