I am writing a program to compare data between a MySQL and FoxPro table. Both tables have same structure. I pull all data from MySQL table in a cursor and compare all records and fields of the cursor with the corresponding fields/records of the FoxPro table.

One of the field (PROCDT) is of datatime. Some of the records have empty value in this field in MySQL as well as FoxPro table. The data retrieved from MySQL table shows type T and displays empty value (something like " . . : : "). The corresponding data in the FoxPro table has empty Datetime and displays similar empty data. However, when I compare the two, it evaluates to .F.

? SQLResult.ProcDT 
    .  .     :  :
? IOL_ACT.ProcDT 
    .  .     :  :
? VarType(SQLResult.ProcDT) 
T
? VarType( IOL_ACT.ProcDT) 
T
?SQLResult.ProcDT =IOL_ACT.ProcDT
.F.

* If I convert DateTime through TTOC, they match! 
? TTOC(SQLResult.ProcDT) = TTOC(IOL_ACT.ProcDT)
.T.

Has anyone seen this behaviour? Is this a bug?

Thank you so much...