No point in my testing....that's what I got....I was looking for the "8" that David got.


>>Ok, Larry, David ---
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>>This is gonna sound goofy, but try it with SET DATE DMY instead of BRITISH and see what happens....I cannot get this "bug" to fire.....I'm using 5.0a....what about you, David?
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>>>>I meant to say...
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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 and set date to MDY it ran properly after that...and I can't make it do it again, even after I unload and re-loaded VFP. Hmmmm?!"
>>>>
>>>>Sorry...it's late!
>>>Just for curiosity, I tried it "one more time" and it did it again! It seems to be a more than transient, let's call it "intermittent" bug!
>Try this one in test.prg, I get 12 both times
>
>set date british
>x= {12/08/98}
>? month(x)
>set date mdy
>x= {12/08/98}
>? month(x)