>>I'm developing have a little utility that imports data from .CSV files. I have problems with some dates. I have set:
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>>SET DATE BRITISH
>>SET CENTURY ON
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>>Dates come in british form (dd/mm/yyyy), they are NOT enclosed in quotation marks, they arrive to date type fields. After the APPEND FROM these dates suffer changes:
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>>CSV => VFP Cursor
>>16/05/1968 => 16/05/2019
>>19/06/2011 => 19/06/2020
>>02/04/1973 => 04/02/1973
>>11/08/2015 => 08/11/2015
>>04/05/1938 => 05/04/1938
>>26/07/2016 => 26/07/2020
>>22/05/2004 => 22/05/2020
>>24/03/2015 => 24/03/2020
>>13/09/1980 => 13/09/2019
>>16/05/1963 => 16/05/2019
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>>I tried changing to SET DATE AMERICAN and it becomes worst, the dates which previously are converted to end in 2020 appears blank.
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>>Does anyone have an idea?
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>You might want to look at SET CENTURY TO xx ROLLOVER yy and SET STRICTDATE. But you're seeing some weird results, I'm not sure they would apply in your case.
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>Some settings such as SET CENTURY are scoped per data session.
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>If the above don't help then I think Thomas has the right idea, parse the input file, perhaps use an unambiguous date format such as {^2016-09-10}.


Thank you for your advice, but I have no way to ask the csv provider to change the csv file.