date/time field from access 2000 db getting -1 in textbox on form

I am stuck in using Access 2000 with on Windows 2000 server. I get a
negitive 1 for a value.


My code

$DB_Conn = new COM("ADODB.Connection") or die("Cannot start connection");
$DB_Conn->Open("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data
Source='C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\co\\calendar.mdb'");

$rs = new COM('ADODB.Recordset') or die("Cannot start rs");

if($sMode=="edit"){
$Query ="SELECT * From tEvents where event_ID =".$event_ID;
$rs->open ($Query, $DB_Conn, 3 );
$event_id = $rs->Fields['Event_id']->Value;
$event_title = $rs->Fields['Event_title']->Value;
$sStart_date = $rs->Fields['start_date']->Value;
$sStart_date = date('m/j/y', $sStart_date);
$end_date = $rs->Fields['end_date']->Value;

$Remarks1 = $rs->Fields['Remarks1']->Value;
$uic = $rs->Fields['uic']->Value;
$cdp = $rs->Fields['cdp']->Value;
$cin = $rs->Fields['cin']->Value;
$instructor = $rs->Fields['instructor']->Value;
$hours_lost = $rs->Fields['hours_lost']->Value;

$start_time = $rs->Fields['start_time']->Value;
// $start_time = $rs->Fields(time('start_time'));
// $start_time = date("H:i:s", $start_time);

$end_time = $rs->Fields['end_time']->Value;






//################
// inside form

<TR>
<TD VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=27%>&nbsp;<FONT FACE=Verdana SIZE=2>
</td>
<TD VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH=51%>
Start Time
<input type="TEXT" size="7" name="start_time" value="<?
if($start_time == "" ) {
print "8:00";
}else{
print $start_time;
} ?>">
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; End Time
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" SIZE="7" NAME="end_time" value="<?
if($end_time == "") {
print "16:00";
}else{
print $end_time;
} ?>">
</TD>

<TD VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH="22%">
<?
if($error_state == "y") {
// pos1 = instr(error_words, "num_of_students")
// print " pos1 = ".$pos1; }
?>
<IMG SRC="error.gif" WIDTH=60 HEIGHT=29 BORDER=0 ALT="">
<? } ?>
</TD>
</TR>





The fields in the DB are date/time type, and format short time.

Thanks for the help
Jim