To be pedantic it should be
? DATE(lnYear-1, 12, 31 ) + lnNumberOfDaysFromTheBeginning
what puzzles me now Foxpro does reasonably complicated operator overloading as above , but doesn't like
"1" + 1
which is implicitly converted to string "11" in mainstream languages now.

>Thanks.
>That's what I wanted
>? DATE(lnYear, 1, 1)+lnNumberOfDaysFromTheBegiining
>
>
>>>Is there function in VFP or in contributions which for given number of days from the year beginning will return month or day of month it falls on or just a {date}.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>Michael
>>
>>I am not so sure what you asking for, but try this:
>>

>>? DaysFromStart(123, 2005)
>>? DaysFromStart(123)
>>? DaysFromStart(123, 2008)
>>
>>FUNCTION DaysFromStart(lnNumberOfDays, lnYear)
>>
>>IF VARTYPE(lnYear) # [N]
>>   lnYear = YEAR(DATE())
>>ENDIF
>>IF VARTYPE(lnNumberOfDays) # [N]
>>   MessageBox([And what you want :-)?])
>>ENDIF
>>
>>RETURN DATE(lnYear, 1, 1)+lnNumberOfDays
>>