Lorne,

Your response is confusing.

The suggestion was to use a TextBox in teh dialog. With a textbox there is no need for the user to type in the strictdate format for a date constant, they can simply type the date into the textbox as a date;

With;

SET DATE AMERICAN
SET CENTURY TO 19 ROLLOVER 80

The user types into the textbox:

01/01/00 <=Enter

(this doesn't matter as to whether the SET CENTURY ON or OFF is in use)

The value of the textbox is the date value {^2000/01/01}.

What does this have to do with Strictdate? SET STRICTDATE is an assistant to you in finding code that has questionable data handling in it. If you set it to 0 no checking is done, 1 and constants are checked for the strictdate format, and 2 to check constants and for the use of date fucntions that are dependent on the SET DATE setting.