>>Does the earlier versions of Foxpro store only 8 digits? > >In the dbf file a date is stored always on 8 characters (digits on the >format YYYYMMDD). What earlier versions? I am sure that this is like that >at least from 2.0. This goes back to dBase - the .dbf format has always had dates like this. Kind of thought of the problem 20+ years in advance.