>Yes, I actually have defaults in the full DBC. However, my concern is that if someone INSERT INTO FROM MEMVAR or SET CARRY ON and APPEND BLANK. I don't want the old date. Also, I want the change date to be automatic when the records is changed. The unfortunate thing is that we do a bunch of things from the command line, such as update tables like this. I supposed I could/should make an update form that handles these bits, but I haven't had time.
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>David
In this case what you can in your trigger for the insert and update is to check if the value is updated like.

IF ChangeDate<>DATE()
   =MessageBox("Please make sure....")
   return .f.
ENDIF

This way at least you might get the attention of someone that does an update/insert.
The form of course would be better.

Yelena