Gang, I'm just going to forward a question by a list owner rather than rewrite it in my own words. It behaves exactly as he stated, and I don't know where to begin looking for a problem. I'm lost on this one. We are running 1.8e, 27 May 2002 build date. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. Also the email below is from 2/24, about a month old. -Jim -- Jim Serwinowski [log in to unmask] UB Listserv Administrator http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Jim; This is something I have been meaning to ask for a long time, but I've a really good example here so am finally asking. I used "today" in this search, but 4/2/24 produces the same result. ------------------------------ > s * in autocat from today -> 9 matches. Item # Date Time Recs Subject ------ ---- ---- ---- ------- 003027 04/02/24 01:47 18 Humor 011190 04/02/24 01:47 15 Re: Diacritics 090345 04/02/24 01:48 107 Re: Conference name 101654 04/02/24 00:08 19 Gaylord Se-lin labeller 101655 04/02/24 00:09 36 Display of enhanced 505's 101656 04/02/24 00:15 76 Re: Expression level entries 101657 04/02/24 07:34 22 Re: Copying from PAL to VHS 101658 04/02/24 07:43 20 Re: 043 for Pacific Islands 101659 04/02/24 08:29 26 Re: Barcodes on outside of items To order a copy of these postings, send the following command: GETPOST AUTOCAT 3027 11190 90345 101654-101659 -------------------------------------------------- How did 3027 (from 1992), 11190 (from 1993) and 90345 (from 2002) get into a search for date 4/2/24 ? *AND* 90345 is not a single item it is two; the item indexed, from John J. Marr, plus an item from Colleen Turnage (sp?). Do a GETPOST AUTOCAT for 90345 and you will get the double item, neither of which are 4/2/24 items. Have you an idea why this happens? Not a major problem, just something I've been puzzling about for a long while without finding any explanatory pattern (the first two have 24:xx:xx times, but the third has a 12:xx:xx time; the fourth, linked to the third differs in how the date is given: Sat, July 13/Sat, 13 July).