>I'm developing have a little utility that imports data from .CSV files. I have problems with some dates. I have set:
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>SET DATE BRITISH
>SET CENTURY ON
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>Dates come in british form (dd/mm/yyyy), they are NOT enclosed in quotation marks, they arrive to date type fields. After the APPEND FROM these dates suffer changes:
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>CSV => VFP Cursor
>16/05/1968 => 16/05/2019
>19/06/2011 => 19/06/2020
>02/04/1973 => 04/02/1973
>11/08/2015 => 08/11/2015
>04/05/1938 => 05/04/1938
>26/07/2016 => 26/07/2020
>22/05/2004 => 22/05/2020
>24/03/2015 => 24/03/2020
>13/09/1980 => 13/09/2019
>16/05/1963 => 16/05/2019
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>I tried changing to SET DATE AMERICAN and it becomes worst, the dates which previously are converted to end in 2020 appears blank.
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>Does anyone have an idea?
>
>TIA
Change the data type of the cursor field into C(10) and add a date type field at the end of the cursor which stays bland during import.

Then do a post processing where you can extract the dates properly in VFP code and move the date into the empty date field.