Why not? If you have SET CENTURY TO nCentury ROLLOVER nRolloverYear then an 8 character date field respects the right century. In fact, it's easier on the user to enter 01/01/01 for Jan 1, 2001 AS LONG AS the application can always determine the proper century.

>I had allways used SET CENTURY ON myself, but I guess that someone would have set it OFF to cram more controls in a form, given the date control would take less space. Not a good solution, IMHO.
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>>I am doing some y2k sniffing on a third party product and have come across several set century off commands? Why would someone use this command? I know their has to be a reason.