>>You're doing this correctly if you want any year entered as 30 or above to be in the 20th century and any year entered below 30 to be in the 21st century. Personally, I usually use a number higher than 30, but it really depends on your app.
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>With this setting in place, a user enters 1/3/00 as an effective date and is told by the system that the transaction date is prior to the last transaction date (which is 12/10/99). When I break the program VFP tells me that the entered date is 1/3/1900.
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>I have the set century statement in_ the current form because its a private data session and I know the statement is session specific.
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>CG

Where in the form do you have the SET CENTURY command? You should probably have it in your form's Load method.