>>ldTestDate = {01/04/1995}
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>Yes, Sergey, you've pointed out this before but whenever I use that construct I get the message:
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>"Ambiguous date/datetime constant. Use the format {^yyyy-mm-dd ..." (as your 2nd ex.)
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>or for some reason my date doesn't get stored as a date. I've never had any luck with that so I continue to use the old dBASE code that I trust, the way I learnt. I didn't want the same error messages to beset the newbie, Bilal.

SET STRICTDATE TO 0

>>* Even better
>>ldTestDate = {^1995/04/01}
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>Maybe so but I'm used to dates in British format (as I suspect Bilal is :-)

Very weak excuse for not writing proper code.