>Thanks Rich for your reply. But the version is FVP 9.
>
>>According to the Hacker's Guide for VFP 7 (hope it's ok to quote it here)
>>

>>nFirstDayofWeek
>> Omitted
>> Use Sunday as the first day. This is for compatibility with older versions of FoxPro.
>>

>>

Right, but when they added SET FDOW (many versions after DOW() came into the language), they didn't want to break existing applications that used DOW(). So, they added a parameter rather than changing its default behavior.

Tamar