System Time is working fine for me... Try adding an String to Image, feeding the System Time into this, and then to a Billboard patch: it works. My suggestions: 1) Make sure the date is day/month/year (I think the month was set to 13 - maybe confused with US date format) 2) Get rid of the Rate connection and instead connect the Enable input of the Billboard (that way you'll guarantee that nothing will play, even if the movie is triggered on load). Doing this I had it appear and play when I set the date.