>Because my SELECT statement is going to be constructed from a date in a form. Maybe I should've said that the format of the date in the example that I gave was not static. The format of that date could be in the form DMY MDY or YMD.
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>Anyway my problem is solved now.
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>What I did is that I built my SELECT statement with the YEAR MONTH and DAY functions.
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>'{^' + STR(YEAR(ldDate, 4) + '-' + STR(MONTH(ldDate)) + '-' + STR(DAY(ldDate)) + '}'
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>Don't hesitate to reply if you think that you've go something better.

Uh, Denis, is there something wrong with ldnewdate = DATE(YEAR(ldDate), MONTH(ldDate), DAY(ldDate))? That'll return a compliant date regardless of the SET DATE settings.