was looking to see if there i was missing such a conversion.. it looks like i need to manually split it apart and build a DateTime. does this sound right? thanks! -- ---- peace, sergio photographer, journalist, visionary http://www.CodingForHire.com http://www.coffee-black.com http://www.painlessfrugality.com http://www.twitter.com/sergio_101 http://www.facebook.com/sergio101