jerry,

Use a Double instead of a Long.

Regards,
Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA

"jerry chapman" wrote in message
om...
I have a date string of 2/21/2005 1:07:22 PM. When I convert it to Long I
get a value of 38405, which is 2/22/2005. How can I make the value be
2/21/2005? Can I truncate the date string to remove the time part?