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Robb, I noticed that products on the IDD have been arriving with time stamps in the future. After looking around, I see that alden's clock is aproximately 4.5 minutes fast. Eg, [105]chiz on sunshine --> rdate nport.alden.com;date [nport.alden.com] Mon Aug 2 09:16:54 1999 Mon Aug 2 09:12:27 MDT 1999 Chiz