alzdba: Hmm yes doing the conversion by hand does seem to be the only way. Thanks for the code.

Lionel

alzdba: Getting the registry key out like you suggest would work very well if the server was in BST but unfortinatly it is in GMT so I can get the...

I know that the date is in BST my question is: is there an easy way of converting a date in BST into GMT. It is not as simple as...

Would rather not have to do that as I would mean rewriting rather a lot of code.

The problem is BST is sometimes the same as GMT and sometimes it is fowards and hour. The logic for when the change happens is not trivial and I was...