>George;
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>With strict date level set to 1 from options NOT A SINGLE ONE of the print statements below printed. I either got an invalid date message or an ambiguous date message.
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>However, setting strict date level to 0 produced the same results you outlined below.

Hi Bob,

The STRICTDATE setting, of course, applies only to constants. I neglected to mention that I had the setting at 0 in my tests. The real problem here is that 3/1/0000 (or 3/1/000) when entered into a text is changed to 3/1/1900 when the StrictDateEntry property on the text is set to 1. OTOH, 2/1/0000 evaluates to invalid.