>if ASN1_TINE_set_string() avoids that limitation, despite Victor's suggestion to never use it. It does avoid the limitation, using only |struct tm| to hold parsed fields, and not building a |time_t| from it. Not sure why Viktor doesn't like it. It seems to me it's the only portable thing to ues. -- Senior Architect, Akamai Technologies IM: richsalz at jabber.at Twitter: RichSalz