>Gary,
>
>To extend Jill's idea a little (so it doesn't rely on SET("DATE") etc), you could use
>

>lcDate = '{^2001-06-31}'
>? empty(eval(lcDate))  && returns .T.
>

>Cheers,
>
>Andrew
>

Andrew,

This method errors out on my system, giving me "Date/Datetime evaluated to an invalid date". It also errors out switching it to lcDate = '{^06-31-2001}'. Does it not generate an error on your system?