>THIS CAN'T BE TRUE!!!!!!!!!
>I changed SET DATE AMERICAN and it works!!!
>After that I changed SET DATE GERMAN and IT WORKS again!!!!!!!!!!
>I restarted VFP and start the code and IT BOMBS again until I changed the date to AMERICAN and then back to GERMAN.

Seems to be that VFP can't display dates before the Julian-to-Gregorian switch, but can calculate with them. This flipping of set("date") around seems to work around that somehow.