From: rickNOSPAMnews@NOSPAMcomcast.net   
      
   > Many thanks (I think!).   
   > As a dabbler in Vb (but not in programming, I wrote my first program   
   back in   
   > 1968 in a nice air conditioned room!)   
   > I can see I'm going to have some fun.   
      
   Sorry for the ugliness of the API solution I referred you to; however,   
   as James pointed out, VB does not have direct write access to the dates,   
   so the only solution is to use API functions.   
      
   Rick - MVP   
      
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