>Trivia observation for the day: VFP's Gomonth() function fails prior to September 14, 1753 which happens to be the next day after the English-speaking Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar, requiring an 11-day correction.
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>But being Sergey, I guess you knew that. ;-)

Seems to work for me :)

ldDate = DATE(1753,9,14)
? GOMONTH(ldDate,-1)

Doesn't mean that resulting date is correct though <g>