>Hi Bruce,
>In VFP 5.0, I find that you have to explicitly set the default century. I use this in my startup code:
>
>SET CENT TO VAL(LEFT(ALLT(STR(YEAR(DATE()))), 2))

Thanks Mark -- I was suspecting I might need something like that. Startup is a good idea, in case I actually have one of the Y2K-police looking over my shoulder, to make sure I don't cheat. This way they won't know I'm cheating :)