David wrote: ".. the month of the last modified date is in French. <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B %Y" -->" Barry's suspicion seems right that the form of your last modified date stamp is a FrontPage form, requiring the server to support FrontPage extensions. Features proprietary to FrontPage can easily go wrong. Somehow, it seems, the Freepages server is interpreting the language of this element as French. (The month*, BTW, is the only part of the date that would be language-sensitive; day & year are numerals.) Therefore, you might want to go with Lorrie's suggestion of replacing this with her more standard form: <!--#config timefmt="%B %d, %Y" --> <!-- formats date/time --> <!--#echo var="LAST_MODIFIED" --> <!-- displays date --> The above Perl programming language form will either work as you expect or fail completely. If it fails, you'll see an error message, "[An error occurred while processing this directive]". Also, you should look at the doctype declaration; it is (or should be) the first line or two in the page file, above the head section, and look something like "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">". The last two letters in the first line are the language code. To make it USA-specific, change to "EN-US". Further, you can put a language specification into your HTML statement (just below doctype), as in <HTML lang="EN"> If you should want to change language for a particular element, say, a paragraph: <p lang="fr"> -rt_/)