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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Anti-Spam Code: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by klaus.joehnk[/i] [br]Origin Version 7.0 SR4: Win XP SR2 Hello, on my office PC (and only there) a LabTalk call to date() only succeeds to give correct Julian dates when called with the MM/DD/YYYY format. If using a custom time format (defined as dd'.'MM'.'yyyy in the Tools->Options-Miscellaneous menue) in the call to date(DD.MM.YYYY) then interpretes that string as months=DD and days=MM, i.e. like the MM/DD/YYYY format with '.' as delimiter. All other date formats fail. Question: 1) Why this wrong interpretation, although this format is defined? 2) How to circumvene that when I have to handle DD.MM.YYYY dates? 3) why does Origin not comply with/implement international standards? i.e. ISO 8601 date format YYYY-MM-DD Klaus [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.