>I have a small VFP6 app that I would like to completely ignore the century in dates (not visible nor will they enter it). No one using it will ever confuse 2000 with 1900.
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>I have done the following in the app's main calling program.
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> SET CENTURY ON
> SET CENTURY TO VAL(SUBSTR(DTOC(DATE()),7,2)) ROLLOVER 80
> SET CENTURY OFF
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>I've tried the following in the date fields of my forms.
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>Century = 0 - Off
>DateFormat = 13 - Short
>StrictDateEntry = 0 - Loose
>Format = 'D'
>InputMask = '99/99/99'
>MaxLength = 8
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>And the date still appears with the century showing when the field is edited (ex 01/01/2000)
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>What do I need to do to get rid of the Century completely, or is this not possible ?

If you get rid of the century, then it's not a date. Just use a character string instead.