Thanks, Eddie!
Very interesting facts! Our app allows conversion from Julian dates, but no one ever used it, and until recently, no one knew what it meant, other than the value VFP returns.
Mark

>The only place I've seen Julian dates as you describe, with the year and the day number in the year, is in the Federal Government. I imagine they use this format because it's a little less ambiguous (is it mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy), and it takes up less character space than a regular date format, which no doubt goes way back when storage space was such a premium. Just a guess....Eddie