>I ran into something similar, and ended up making my expression ctod(dtoc(mydatefield))
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>Both version will except that. Or you could just change the strict date setting in VFP until the conversion is done, then fix the indexes and set strictdate back to the default.
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That makes sense - I set it to strictdate in order to troubleshoot the legacy code for compliance problems, but they're all sorted now so I might as well switch it off again for the duration...

Cheers

Harry