>>>There is most likely a group policy in place, so the domain settings are getting applied
>>>to your PC. It should be easy to fix by changing your code where indicated.
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>>Hi Craig,
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>>just out of interest, what group policy could affect the STRICTDATE setting in VFP?
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>I wondered the same thing.
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>>I believe what has happened is that when the user connected to the DOMAIN they got
>>a new registry hive (or whatever it's called) created where the SET STRICTDATE setting
>>for VFP went back to the default value.
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>To me it seems like a very odd compile-time bug.

Why do you consider it a bug? It's pretty clear that it is telling you that you have used dates that are ambiguous. You then have the option of changing a compile time switch to allow them or not.