Hi, There appears to be some kind of off by one error in Date for the month. d = Date.getDate Sat ??? 6 10:59:45 2003 d.month 12 d.month_(d.month - 1) Sat Dec 6 11:00:18 2003 d.month 11 It looks to me like the culprit is strftime(), but that is part of CoreServices RJK