>Sorry but I don't understand VFP documentation in this matter. Please somebody help.
>I have a field in which a date should be entered. I want that field being a text field that'll convert to date afterwards, and I want the user to enter the last two digits of the year only.
>First problem: I set the Input mask to ##/##/19## so that the user doesn't have to enter the whole year, but the field only displays / /1 (the 9 is missing) ??
Don't forget to initially set .Value to a date - perhaps the empty date, which you specify as {}.
Hilmar.
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