>>>Yep. And I bet ?set("STRICTDATE") gives you 0, right?
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>>I gotta run now. It gave me 1. I'll experiment more tomorrow.
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>OK. Very interesting. WIth STRICTDATE to 1, I error out. Set to 0, your solution works. I want your system. I want STRICTDATE = 1.

I tried it at home and got the error too. Yes, it seems like a bug. The only date that worked is {}. Strange, that at work it was fine. May be some other date settings, like set century. Let's see, if MS KB has an article about it.