> ... or have I missed some finer point about regional settings?
probably.
check out the 'apply all setting to the current user account and the default
user profile" in the regional control panel
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""Fred"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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So here is the source of the problem, but not the cause.
>From the XP command line etc. the dir returns a file line of
04/02/2005 02:09 AM 19405754 filename.ext
but when invoked from shell_exec() it returns
04/02/2005 02:09 19405754 filename.ext
which means that for some