>I've written a prog to work in FPD, to read in an XLS/CSV file and create a table (from a given copy struct).
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>When I run this, a date field that yields, say, 11/04/2006 in VFP, ends up with XX/XX/1920.
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Terry, if it were a century problem, your date would read 11/04/1906.

>I've got century on, date british
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>The s/s/ date is in the form: XX-XX-2006
>I've just realised that I haven't Set Mark to "-" - would that make any difference?
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>Obviously, somewhere the s/w is treating the date as short (as with Cent off) but I can't figure out how/why.
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>Any ideas?
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Not sure it is a century thing... I tried a simple test:
1. created a cursor with date field
2. set date to british
3. m.e="11-04-2006"
4. replaced date with ctod(m.e)

works fine...

Could it be that you are browsing the data and it just "looks" like 11/04/20...i.e. a browse preference or browse last (originally century off)that only shows the first 2 digits of the year with century on?

Ed