An empty date value is definitely not future. An empty date will ALWAYS be less than any valid date. An empty date will ALWAYS be the lowest possible date value.

>EMPTY date would mean FUTURE, but that's me. Everything has a beginning but time still goes on, thus, EMPTY date.
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>Never born?
>born = {}
>died = {01/01/2001}
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>or
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>Still alive today.
>born = {01/01/2001}
>died = {}
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>Chuck
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>>returns True. Empty date is like time zero in the past and is not a null value [isnull(dDate) returns false]. I do not understand the problem.