>>>>All the dates I am working in are from 1999 to 2030 (bond maturity dates). But, I think if the error was going to occur on your machine, it would probably occur with any numeric string, regardless of content or length.
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>>>Hi Erik,
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>>>I just ran through 1 million iterations, generating a random date in the specified range each time and no error. So I'd say that this is peculiar to NT.
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>>Or just me :-). Thanks George. Anyone running NT care to test?
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>I ran through 10,000 iterations on NT with SP4 and VFP 6 with SP2 and didn't have a problem. Strange...

Figures. Thanks Randy.