I think that it would be more consistent that both calls return either a blank date, or an error.

>Ravi,
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>I guess it's the difference between an out of range parameter in the first case (there are no months with > 31 days in them) and valid parameters that do not resolve to a valid date in this case VFP will return an empty date value.
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>>The Date() function can be used to create a date variable, e.g. ldStart = Date(2006,02,05). Consider the following commands:
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>>? DATE(2006,04,35)
>>? DATE(2006,04,31)
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>>The first command causes an error (I expect that) whereas the second command does not cause an error and displays an empty date. I feel that the second command should also cause an error instead of returning an empty date.