>>Not to beat up on you, but the diffferent solution would also fail for leap day this year.
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>So I've been told :-)

Just to take a little heat from Mr. Dork, I am the one who orig. said VFP6. It never occured to me to even try it in the earlier versions. I could swear I remember tips about this sort of thing in FoxPro Advisor back in the VFP3 days.
I just tried it in FP2.5 and, well... Imagine that after all these years.;-)