DM> I manually unzipped a packet received in Irex and the dates are fine.
 DM> So the  problem lies either with Telegard or Squish.  My gut feeling
 DM> is that squish  is stripping the date/time stamp from the echomail.

Solved!  It was squish, but not squish's fault.  I was thinking there was a 
Y2K issue so I googled squish y2k and lo and behold there was an update I 
hadn't installed.  Working great now (of course).  Thanks for everyone's help 
and suggestions.

Regards,
Doug

--- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
 # Origin: The Ville - Kinston, NS (1:255/36)
 * Origin: LiveWire BBS -=*=- telnet://livewirebbs.com (1:2320/100)

--- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.20a
 * Origin: LiveWire BBS  (1:2320/100.0)