>>Hi everybody,
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>>I tried to convert one output format to another. In the first one the date field is character field 8 and looks like 02/01/00, for example.
>>In the second date is date format. In expression builder I tried ctod(date) and it gives me a strange error: "Expression must be of type N", which, of course, confuses me. I assume, that it because of SET STRICTDATE (I just checked it and it set to 1 in this application).
>>What should I do? Create a UDF?
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>Just want to add, that if I just tried in Command window ctod('01/01/00') it gives me 01/01/2000, so works fine. Could it be VFP expression builder bug? I'm using VFP 6.0 SP3.

SET DATE is scoped to the data session.