Michael Dunn wrote: Evidently the original author thinks the whole world uses 24 hour clocks and that weird backwards date notation If you're gonna look at it from the point of computing, any use of the 12-hour clock is sheer folly. And that weird backward notation is used in almost everywhere outside the US. Michael Dunn wrote: the code will crash in the US It's not code, it's a date and time. But anyway, I get your point :) - Khaled In C we could create our own bugs. With C++ we can inherit them.