On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:00, Bob Pawley wrote: > Hi Folks > > I have a column for date which defaults to the ambigous 2005-1-1 > format. > > The documantation indicates how to change this to the unambigous Jan 1 > 2005, but the instructions aren't clear to me. Actually, if the year comes first, it is not ambiguous. It will always be month-day if the year comes first. It's the mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy that is the issue.