Date problem

I am having a problem moving a date, I know it is going to be something 
really stupid on my part, but any help would be appreciated.

I have two variables defined as follows:

DDMYSDATE         S             10A
DDMYEDATE         S             10A

I am passing them a date value with the following c-spec:
C                   EVAL      DMYSDATE = '02/01/2006' 
C                   EVAL      DMYEDATE =  '02/28/2006'

up to this point everything is fine.....however when I attempt to move the 
dates into two fields on a report, which are defined as type L it balks:

Here is the move statement:

C                   MOVE      DMYSDATE      PRTSTARTD
C                   MOVE      DMYEDATE      PRTENDD  

I get a date/timestamp error everytime.....

Suggestions?  

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