>>>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? Of course not. I've just been playing (in trying to see what happens with the Y10K) with this: x=date() x10=gomonth(x,8000*12) and it worked just like any other date operation. Fox treats dates pretty like any other integers, it just displays them in some variety of formats, depending on Set Date and Set Century.