>I have a character field with a date stored in it in the following format
>
>mm/dd/yy
>
>I need to get this to be in this format ccyymmdd
>
>any suggestions?

SET DATE to mdy
lcDate = dtos(ctod("12/01/99"))
* then set date format back to your usual date format

The good thing about the above is that it uses the VFP settings for determining the century.