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Visual FoxPro
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>>>>>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.
>>
>>Does it mean that if I substract two dates across Y2K in FPW26, there won't be any problem?
>
>That's correct.

That's correct unless Foxpro and you assume 00/12/30 to mean something different. I always work with century on. No ambiguity
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