>>>One tiny problem with this. Try to enter the date 02/29/00, a valid date
>>>for year 2000. The problem here is that Feb 29, 1900 is not a valid date
>>>(not a leap year).
>>>
>>
>>Well, 2000 should be a leap year, since it's dividable (divisable?) with
>>400. Can anyone clear this out?
>
>That's what I'm saying. 2000 is a leap year, but 1900 was not. If you have SET CENTURY OFF and are using the valid method mentioned in this thread to change the century, then (at least in Fox 2.x, I haven't tried it in 3.0) you will get a FoxPro message "invalid date" BEFORE you ever get to your validation for the field.

Yes, it's still true in vfp5, too, so we have to be careful...But probably all our vfp apps should use ROLLOVER as needed to avoid the problem...

SET CENTURY TO 19 ROLLOVER 80 will put you in 1980-2079, for example, for any given two-digit year...Of course, I expect my apps to last 80 years or so (s).