Can't import date using copy

Hi

I have tried reformatting dates in many ways but every thing I have
tried fails.

I used insert and update to create and change dates with different
styles and
was successful.

Is this a known bug?

Is their a fix for this bug?

or

Do I have to import date variables using insert/update statements?

I built the binaries from Redhat's postgresql-7.0.2-2.src.rpm package
and installed
all the binary packages that were built:

postgresql-7.0.2-2.i386.rpm
postgresql-devel-7.0.2-2.i386.rpm
postgresql-jdbc-7.0.2-2.i386.rpm
postgresql-odbc-7.0.2-2.i386.rpm
postgresql-perl-7.0.2-2.i386.rpm
postgresql-python-7.0.2-2.i386.rpm
postgresql-server-7.0.2-2.i386.rpm
postgresql-tcl-7.0.2-2.i386.rpm
postgresql-test-7.0.2-2.i386.rpm
postgresql-tk-7.0.2-2.i386.rpm

The reason I built the binaries from the source code, was because the
ftp server
at redhat was overloaded and was only lucky enough to get on after
numerous attempts.

I have been building using linux since 1995, and postgresql since 1997.

This is the first major problem I have had.

I have only requested help a couple of times, but do contribute to the
list on occasions.

Guy