>>Hi,
>>
>>Can you change the date from British to American using SET DATE command?
>>
>>For example, say you have a char column in a DBF like this:
>>14/10/2020
>>08/03/2012
>>16/2/2020
>>3/3/2010
>>all the above characters show the date in a British format. Note the above are not dates but char representation of a date.
>>Now I want to change them to American format (mm/dd/yyyy)
>>Can it be done without many SUBSTR()?
>>
>>TIA
>
>Yes, if you do SET DATE TO BRITISH, then use the CTOD() function you'll get the date values as you'd expect (assuming that the string you're passing to the CTOD() function are indeed formatted in dd/mm/yyyy format. You do have to be careful when changing setting like SET DATE -- it might cause existing code to break (if it's not coded to be independent of the SET DATE setting)

I tested the use of CTOD() and then getting MONTH(), DATE(), YEAR() from the result. Then changing to SET DATE AMERICAN and creating a new date using

dAmericanDate = Date(nYear, nMonth, nDay)

So I will just create a simple PRG to scan all records and changing SET DATE from BRITISH to AMERICAN.
This is a one-time procedure; converting some data.
Thank you for your message.