> One oddity is that null date fields return 11/17/1858!! Does that
> date ring a bell with anyone? Default value? special holiday? some date
> revolutionary significance? chance?

That date is what you get if the ISC_DATE structure has all 0's in it. I
think it is something like the Greenwich standard, but not totally sure of
that. Obviously they will need to get that resolved eventually.

HTH,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
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