>Just tested it: It worked for me in an EXE made up of a PRG with that as the first line. Hmmmm......

Gonz,

Try it with a DATETIME() instead. The constant is evaluated at runtime.

Why not just grab the last modification date? That should be the desired value.

>>I would like to create a constant that represents the date a program was compiled on.
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>>The following does NOT work:
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>>#DEFINE COMPILE_DATE DTOC(DATE())
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>>
>>Can it be done?
>>
>>TIA,