>don't have any SET DATE statments in development, and under Win98, SET('DATE') returned "American" and your CMONTH() example returns "October".
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>Mine returns american as well, but something is screwed up obviously somewhere. Reloading system and from ground up and re-testing.

That may straighten the situation out, but it certainly sounds strange to me. If you're going to re-do (install) everything (including Windows), then reformat the drive too. I don't know if this will help, but I'd do it as a precaution.

>BTW George, Is there anything produced by MS for VFP akin to MSCD for Visual Basic?

If you're talking about the certification exams, yes. The new one for VFP 6.0 should be announced shortly. If I recall correctly from a previous thread, I believe the announcement will come next month sometime, but I'm not 100% sure.