FTSearch with date/time type

Hello,Anyone can help me on this:

If uidoc.FieldGetText(“date_from”)<>“” Then

j=view.FTSearch(uidoc.FieldGetText(“date_from”),0)

end if

This field “date_from” is a date/time type. For some reason the search doesn’t work.

How can I convert this to string ? Or put this working ?

date_from example: 05-30-2003

Thanks