At 06:41 PM 28/02/2007, you wrote:

>ian wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Lester Caine wrote:
>>>
>>> Anybody have a sensible way of converting an SQL timestamp into
>>> something I can use in Firebird.

Why don't you just write a UDF?
Info here:
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=/usr/share/catman/a_man/cat8dce/utc.z

./heLen