>Hi,
>
>As a way to initiate a field into an empty date, Rick Hodgin suggested to replace ctod(' / / ') with {}.
>Tamar Granor confirmed this suggestion. These two are real gurus in VFP.
>
>However, I am wondering, what could go wrong with ctod(' / / ')? Is there an example of how the code that follows could fail?
>

>replace MyField with ctod('  /  /  ')
>

Dmitry, I may be proven wrong, but I think this will only fail when you set it to fail, that is, when you SET STRICTDATE TO 2.