Paul Berkowitz wrote on Fri, 19 May 2006 20:33:02 -0700: > set d to (current date) > set month of d to February > set day of d to 6 > set year of d to 2007 > set time of d to (10 * hours) > >That will work no matter what international date and time formats the user >machine uses. Because of the "overflow" phenomenon when one date property is too large for another, if the current date happens to be the 31st of the month, the above script will create a date in March. The best solution seems to be to set the day to a number below 29 first (to avoid the overflow), then set the year and the month (to establish any leap year conditions), and finally set the day and the time. set d to (current date) set day of d to 1 set year of d to 2007 set month of d to February set day of d to 6 set time of d to (10 * hours) Or, as kai might have it: tell (current date) to set {day, year, its month, day, time, d} to {1, 2007, February, 6, 10 * hours, it} NG