> SunOS validates the whole date and rejects messages with an invalid date, Does that include the time? I know one SunOS system which for weeks insitsted everything arrived at and was sent at 5:00 -0000 The date would change, but it was always 5a.m. Greenwich. Interestingly, the site happened to be EST, -0500 . Probably a little programing ooops on someone's part. Just puzzles me how the date could change properly when it's supposedly always the same time of day. Just count 24 hours from the last date change, ignore reporting the time? Douglas