JDBC and date format

Hi ! I have been half day changing the values of DBDATE (to MDY4-) and GL_DATE(to %m-%d-%Y) (both, on the client and server side)(the server and client work on WinNT) to execute properly select * from text where date(anydate) = '11-07-2000' --anydate is datetimecolumn from Java using JDBC and I always get the "String to date conversion error". When I use the string like '00/11/07' I have no error, but I must have the string format like mm-dd-yyyy. If somebody know what I must change to set the proper date format for JDBC (with the sqleditor or dbaccess I have no problem) please help. Piotrek Wawrzyniak