2018-06-05 You must use dashes in date formats *only* for ISO 8601 (RFC 3339) dates! Please, never do such things: ``v1.20 29-03-2018''. It destroys the tedious effort to get at least some sanity into date formats. For DDMMYYYY-like order, use dots: DD.MM.YYYY. Try to avoid slash-separators alltogether, because with them you'll always have the problem of not knowing if DD/MM (UK) oder MM/DD (US). And, please, do always write the year in four digits! These two bytes are so little data, but the help in understanding tremendously! Having to understand ``01/02/03'' is pure horror! It could be anything! The manufacturing date on the bottom of my Thinkpad reads: ``06/02'' -- Great! :-( It's so easy to avoid such confusion! Just adhere to some advice. Give it two more bytes. Use the right separators. Bad date formats are even worse than what I found in a forum sig- nature: I have seen the face of death. It is a 1000+ line XML file of regexes. -- j_houg ... because the latter you actually *can* decode, but the former leaves you helplessly guessing. http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke