RFC 2822 (which is the currently valid one, if I understand correctly) specifies the date format to have four digit zone specifications, ie "GMT+0200", while DateTime.rfc822() happily returns "GMT+2". Not that this seems to be any problem, I'm just looking for an answer if this is how it's supposed to be? I discovered it, because Outlook Express handles RFC822 dates incorrectly and will display both the "Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:47:03 GMT+0200" and "Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:47:03 GMT+2" as "2002-10-11 15:47". Obviously some programmer at Microsoft hasn't read the rfc properly. :-) "The date and time-of-day SHOULD express local time. The zone specifies the offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly referred to as "Greenwich Mean Time") that the date and time-of-day represent." While MS obviously thinks it represents GMT. Easy mistake to do, if you don't read the rfc... Best Regards Lennart Regebro, Torped http://www.easypublisher.com/