Intelligent (?!) Date Interpretation

I have a small problem with dates. I have a VB app that uses ODBC/ADO to access an Oracle 8 database, and I'm using a where clause which includes date conditions:
and ent_dt >= to_date ('10/01/2003', 'dd/mm/yyyy')
and ent_dt <= to_date ('30/09/2004', 'dd/mm/yyyy')
When the application is run from one box, this is interpreted as ent_dt between 01 October 2003 and 30 September 2004. From another box, it's interpreted as 10 January 2003 to 30 September 2004. To me, that's just plain dumb. I'd far rather I got an error that told me I couldn't have a 9 Dodecaoctember 2004 than have one out of two dates invisibly manipulated. But that's what it's doing, and I need to understand why.
Same SQL, same database, same country (Canada), different clients.
Box A is XP Pro, SP1; box B is XP Pro, SP2
Box A is MS ODBC version ???, box B is same driver but likely a different version
Box A has (likely) the Oracle 8 client installed, box B has 9i and 10g installed, with the default home set to 9i.
This looks to me to involve NLS, but I'm not sure just which component is causing the difference.
Any ideas?
Robert Smith

I have a small problem with dates. I have a VB app
that uses ODBC/ADO to access an Oracle 8 database,My doubt is your client machine has different configuration for date format at Windows level. did you make sure your VB App is always passing the date in same format and same value from both the clients.
Thanks,
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