Hiya Derk ---

This is an interesting "feature"....SET DATE TO AMERICAN, BRITISH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, and FRENCH work with dates before 1600....SET DATE TO LONG, SHORT, ANSI, JAPAN, TAIWAN, MDY do not......

I guess a workaround is to SET DATE TO one of the ones that work before doing ancient date calculations.



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>We found what seems to be a bug, both in VFP 5.0a and VFP6 beta. Maybe some of you have encountered it before, but we never read about it on the Compuserve forum, so we thought we'd post it.
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>set date to long
>?ctod("01/01/1597") returns nothing (or empty string)
>set date to short
>?ctod("01/01/1597") returns nothing (or empty string)
>set date to YMD
>?ctod("01/01/1597") returns / /
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>should be 01/01/97, right? Works fine with other date formats. Plus,
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>set date to short
>?ctod("01/01/1597") + 1500 returns 9-02-01, correct!
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>We concluded that CTOD doesn't work correct (at least doesn't return correct values) for dates < 01/01/1601. Has anyone seen this before?
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>greetings,
>derk schutte