>>Why would a command such as:
>>? ctod("10/13/15")
>>give me the following result?
>>10/13/2115
>>In other words, next century instead of the current century.
>>
>>I am trying to import data from a text file, and thought ctod() would be a quick solution. Actually the dates seem to include a century, so the question might be irrelevant for this particular task, but I was still curious what I did wrong.
>>
>>Here are some relevant settings (Visual FoxPro 9):
>>set("date") = "AMERICAN"
>>set("century") = "ON"
>>set("century", 1) = 20
>>set("century", 2) = 65
>>set("century", 3) = 2029 && what the heck does this do?
>
>What is the setting of Rollover? That may be the issue and what Set(Century, 3) is.
According to help, rollover would be set("century", 2) - in this case, 65. Strangely, even for the CURRENT YEAR (see example above), it advances to next century.
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