Is it normal behaviour for strptime("29-Jan-01","%d-%b-%y")$mon to return a value of 0? strptime("29-Jan-01","%d-%b-%y")$year #works ok 101 strptime("29-Jan-01","%d-%b-%y")$mday #works ok 29 Regards, Alex Alex Hanke Department of Fisheries and Oceans St. Andrews Biological Station 531 Brandy Cove Road St. Andrews, NB Canada E5B 2L9