[Lynne]

Did you try putting in exactly what I posted cuz I put that into my template and it worked just fine.

The only thing I can think of is you *can* change a variable via a template - it seems unlikely you are doing this, but.... So, I wonder if you are doing something in your template between where it prints out OK (near the beginning of the template) and where you put the code into your dropdown (near the end of the template). You could try adding the variable into several parts of your template between the two areas and see where it is that it changes from OK to unixtime.

And.... you are talking about the dropdown in the postbit, right? Suddenly I'm getting the feeling you are not. And if not, you need to say where this dropdown is. You may have to create a plugin to use vbdate to create the non-unixtime format for your joindate.