Message from Joshua Olson (3/9/2005 10:37 AM) >Brian, > >Since they want speed, and you want simplicity, I would be inclined to >forego all this hoopla with the slashes and let them enter the date as such: > >030905 So is this September 3rd, 2005 March 9th, 2005 September 5th, 2003 May 9th, 2003 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime Drop down boxes do give you the benefit of having the user select the month by name (even though the data passed to the server may be numeric), thereby eliminating that uncertainty. regards. -marc -- Trinidad Carnival in all its photographic glory. Playyuhself.com http://www.playyuhself.com/