a display problem in using object [date]

Max doesn't like integers to have a zero in front of them. Thus, as an integer, 04 always gets converted to 4. The only way to do it, is to convert the integer to a symbol "04". Since both the months and the dates can have a zero in front of them, you need to be able to fix both. This example uses [combine] to make a symbol with a leading zero out of integers lower than 10, and then uses another combine to string them all together in the mmddyyyy format you want.