Hiya Larry ----

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>The first time I ran it, I got the same thing you did! But after I went back to the command prompt it and set date to MDY. After that it ran properly...and I can't make it do it again, even after I unload and re-loaded VFP. Hmmmm?!

Welll.....if you can't make it do it again, then watch it in the context of the application as a whole. If it doesn't reoccur consider it a transient problem and log it for future reference :-)

That way, when a user sees it you can claim "we know about that...we're working on it" :)