Oh will go back to DOS! Then all dates would be 1/1/1970:)
"Besides, is this error not because the date string is no longer getting "converted" in the Append ... SDF command?"
It was never getting converted there. secsday is 86400, right?
Then make it:

return ctod("1/1/1970")+int(m.secs/m.secsday)

Update: All would be empty not 1/1/1970. Typo.
Cetin


>>Hi Terry
>>
>>SET STRICTDATE TO 0 for backward compatibility
>>
>>MartinJ
>
>Thanks Martin, but I'm only testing the app in VFP; it has to return to and be comiled in an FPD environment. So this command would give an error.
>
>Besides, is this error not because the date string is no longer getting "converted" in the Append ... SDF command?
>
>Terry