Hi David ---

Something is goofy with your machine or VFP version :) I tried your example and consistantly got "12" as the month. What type of PC do you have? OS? Are you using regionalized codepages?



>First, at the command prompt
>SET DATE BRITISH && Aust has DMY dates
>The put this in a test.prg
>

set date mdy
>wait window		&& result will vary depending on whether or not this line is here
>x= {12/08/98}
>? month(x)

>Run the program with and without the wait window. Without the wait window I get 8 as the month; which is wrong. Something kooky going on here.