>>Hi Nancy,
>>Thank you for the reply. I was hoping to be able to set it globally as noted in Help as "or, if issued during the default data session, for the duration of the Visual FoxPro session. "
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>>Anyway, it looks like there is no global way to set SYSFORMATS. I will probably do something similar to what you suggested.
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>As long as it's not Fekla, I'm OK.

Oopppssss. I'm very sorry. Just got back from across the other side of the planet. My jetlag is still wrecking havoc on me...

Thank you Naomi. :)