>Thanks for the hint.. I have the sulution now :
>
>SET SYSFORMATS ON
>SET DATE TO GERMAN &&OR ANY OTHER DEFINED DATE FORM exept : LONG,SHORT
>
>If you do it this way... you don't get the DATE SYNTAX ERROR anymore
>
>?date(1600,1,1) &&Produces an Error, bug in VFP8 when Dateformat is SHORT,LONG
>
>Life is short...


In fact I refer to TextBox Format=YS/YL.
SET SYSFORMAT it is irrelevant