>vfp 3.0 win 95
>
>Currently my date field size is set by the
>date field setup of vfp. 07-27-98
>
>Should we be concerned with the format of
>the field? 07-27-98 vs 07-27-1998
>
>Set Century shows four digit year, however
>the actual date field only allows for two digit
>year.
>
>Is the date field format different in newer
>versions of vfp? Does it allow four digit year
>input?
>
>Thanks and have a great day!
>
Becky,

Date fields have always stored the four digit year in the dbf ever since they were introduced in dBASE III. The format stored on the disk is the ANSII standard date format of YYYYMMDD thus the 8 bytes. Your separators are NOT stored on disk.