Hi all, I have a script that builds a file name as an offset from a past zero-point in time property zdate: date "Monday, August 10, 1992 11:00:00 AM" set file_name to ((current date)-zdate as text) & ".html" Until quite recently, it produced strings like "540175411.html" quite reliably. Now it makes "5.40175411E+8.html" ... not quite the desired effect. I seem to have passed a threshold in the "number-to-text" coercion that flips into exponentiation (but it *could* be exponent-free). The resulting string actually works in the script, but the file names just don't look right, and may mess up some other scripts. So... anybody know how a way to force this back into an integer-like string (without modulo aritmetic and slicing off digits one at a time) ? I tried "as integer", and "as number as text" but without luck. I could move the zero-point forward, but it has sentimental value, and there are *many* existing files with names based on this -- I hate to consider some of the sorting and collision consequences... Thanks for your insights and suggestions (fingers crossed). -b.johnson, dept of architecture, university of washington, seattle