Oh I'm looking forward to that! Currently looking into the new datetimeoffset data type in 2008 to replace my "convert to local date via a utc hour and minute offset lookup table" function! Looks to be the way forward if you deal with data from multiple time zones. I feel amother article coming on this once I've looked into the pros and cons - as let's face it, there are always some cons! Ever tried using the xml nodes method with a very large xml blob? Not good, the old prepare doc and openxml method is way faster but you only find these things out from testing.

Thanks again for the supportive comments.

Cheers, James