The formula I mentioned earlier appears to get it, to within one day.
However, I was unaware of the LE services, which I'll now have to take
a look at.  For anyone that's interested, here's the spreadsheet test
with error calculation based on Excel's built-in date stuff.

http://celestini.com/ibmmain/DateFormulaTest.xls


At 10:31 AM 9/13/2005, Steve Comstock wrote:
  
>Why not use LE callable services? Lilian timestamps are
>64-bit double precision floating point numbers containing
>the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight
>14 October 1492; they support dates and times up to the
>year 10000. There are callable services to convert between
>conventional date / time formats to Lilian.



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