Using 1_35_0 on MSVS .NET 2003 string x("200810051"); try { date d(from_undelimited_string(x)); } catch (exception& e) { } I would have though this would thrown an exception (too many digits in the date) but it didn't. I may have missed it in the doc that the constructor only considers the first 8 digits (for the undelimited case - actually probably the from_undelimited_string function). Or did I miss something else? Larry