Hi Scott, You mean the CDate function in Access. Debug.Print Format(CDate(0), "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mn") = 12/30/1899 00:00 Jerry Whittle ASIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. jerome.whittle@xxxxxxxxxxxx 618-622-4145 > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Graves [SMTP:scott.graves@xxxxxxxxxx] > > One of the 3rd party code managements systems we use stores dates as numbers. > The Access function ctime() will correctly interpret the date into a valid > date format via an ODBC connection. I> '> m trying to duplicate this > function in sqlplus. They tell me that the value of 38030.7181 equates to > 2/13/2004 5:14:06PM. > > I tried several of the date conversions in metalink that convert EPOCH dates, > but was unable to get any to produce the desired results. If anyone has any > ideas, I would greatly appreciate it. > > Scott Graves > Sr. Systems Programmer > NISC RDQ-STP > Email: scott.graves@xxxxxxx > Phone: 636-922-9122 x7616 > Fax: 636-922-2080 >