>Are you using SQL Server?
No this is a fox back end through Microsoft ODBC Driver Ver. 6.01.8629.01

i am thinking this has to do with some ODBC concept of .null. for date fields. I am going to double check all the field settings even though I didn't conciously change them
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>I am surprised you are getting the day before 1/1/1900, Are you substracting a day from your fields? No, These are dates that are filled in as certain events occur.

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>>I have a remote view on a single table with several date fields. The view was created in the view designer.
>>When I browse this view from the project manager the empty date fields show up with 12/31/1899 in them.
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>>set century is on
>>set strictdate is 1
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>>if the view is set up as a local view, it displays normally.
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>>I have obviously done something silly, but I am at a loss as to where to begin.
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>>Thank you in advance.
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>>Brenda Erikson