>>>I wonder why there is no global SET DATE (or SET CURRENCY) setting that would work without code in every Load method.
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>In the VFP3 beta I argued repeatedly that SET DATE/SET SYSFORMAT etc either should default to machine locale or should not be scoped per datasession, but was shot down.
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>Even with SYSFORMAT set to default we still encounter issues where a machine is updated/reverts to US locale so date fields won't accept 19/11/2018 which causes a support ticket.

It's pretty well choosen the way it is.

My program displays DATE(TIME), SET POINT etc. german or as thewre local machine is set. A import will run completely isolated - and there the format is well defined (try a csv withSET SYSFORMATS ON on a german machine) So a report might come formated completely different then the form. My customer are germans, they like there stuff in german formats. Report goes to customer - customer likes it different. So the data environment for the report goes with different SET DATE etc without interfering with anything else (It's very akward if the background forms change there style while printing.)