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Thanks everyone for the detailed responses, I greatly appreciate it.
I'm new to RunRev, but I'm extremely impressed with the amount of work you can do with such a small amount of code.

Thanks again,
Tony

It looks like it is some type of casting bug with the value of the variable holding the seconds time stamp.

If I modify my code and do:

convert (myVar & "") to dateItems

....it works.
Appending a "" (empty string) onto the end of my numeric value of the original time stamp solves the problem.

if I do this:
-- =====================
convert "1294811623" to dateItems
convert it from dateItems to long date and long time
answer it
-- =====================
...It Works!. I get a nice properly formatted date like I would expect. BUT if I do this:

-- =======================
put "1294811623" into ...