Hi Rob ---
The reason this problem is a serious problem is that often the VFP developer has no call on the structure of the incoming file. Otherwise, you're right, 4-digit year formats.
>Yeah, that's what we do on the 'problem' date fields in our multi-GB download imports every nite. Of course the easy ones are already coming in with 4-digit year formats, but there's always the ones coming from the lazy mainframe programmers that don't...
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