DataSource Controls :: Replication Error Converting Date / Time From Character String

we are using transactional replication on an sql 2008 server. we try now to add a table to the replication that only consists of 1 culomn of type date and we insert the dates to the table. when we then create the replication we are getting an error on the creation of the snapshot. here is the create table with the insert dates:

USE [Product]
GO
/****** Object: Table [TimeSlices].[BaseDate] Script Date: 05/03/2010 15:52:24 ******/
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[TimeSlices].[BaseDate]') AND type in (N'U'))
DROP TABLE [TimeSlices].[BaseDate]
GO
USE [Product]
GO
/****** Object: Table [TimeSlices].[BaseDate] Script Date: 05/03/2010 15:52:24 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [TimeSlices].[BaseDate](
[TargetDate] [date] NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_BaseDate] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[TargetDate] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
INSERT INTO [TimeSlices].[BaseDate] SELECT TargetDate FROM [TimeSlices].UDF_GetTravelDateRange(GETDATE()-2 , GETDATE()+1000)
attached is the UDF:
[Code]....
this is the add article:
use [Product]
exec sp_addarticle @publication = N'Product$(QuoteNumber)', @article = N'BaseDate', @source_owner = N'TimeSlices', @source_object = N'BaseDate', @type = N'logbased', @description = null, @creation_script = null, @pre_creation_cmd = N'drop', @schema_option =
0x000000000803509F, @identityrangemanagementoption = N'manual', @destination_table = N'BaseDate', @destination_owner = N'TimeSlices', @vertical_partition = N'false', @ins_cmd = N'CALL sp_MSins_TimeSlicesBaseDate', @del_cmd = N'CALL sp_MSdel_TimeSlicesBaseDate',
@upd_cmd = N'SCALL sp_MSupd_TimeSlicesBaseDate'
GO

this is the error we get:

Message: Query for data failed

Stack: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.SqlServer.NativeBcpOutProvider.ThrowNativeBcpOutException(CConnection* pNativeConnectionWrapper)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.SqlServer.NativeBcpOutProvider.BcpOut(String strBcpObjectName, String strBcpObjectOwner, String strBaseBcpObjectName, Boolean fUnicodeConversion, String strDataFile, String strLoadOrderingHint, String strWhereClause,
Boolean useTableLockHint, Int32 bcpFileFormatVersion)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.SqlServer.BcpOutThreadProvider.DoWork(WorkItem workItem)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.WorkerThread.NonExceptionBasedAgentThreadProc()
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.AgentCore.BaseAgentThread.AgentThreadProcWrapper() (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 0)
Message: Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.
Stack: (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 241)

why we are getting the conversion error on the snapshot creation?