>I have a question regarding dates in Visual FaxPro 5.0. Is there a way of storing dates (as 'date' not 'char') that have 1 or 2 out of
>date/month/year missing; e.g. dates like 11/27/0000, 00/00/1901,
>12/00/1788?

Depending on what you are doing, you could just display a partial date. Otherwise you might have to use characters. Be careful with this though, you don't want to introduce any date bugs.