>'Set date' command in VFP6 & VFP7 behave a bit different
>This is a note I cut & paste from VFP7 help
>"Note: When SET DATE is set to SHORT or LONG, a date before {^1601-01-01} is invalid and generates an error"

Herman,

Thank you for the heads-up. I'm "glad" to see that this new feature is at least documented in the help file. I wonder what happened on that day historically to make VFP7 cringe in disgust.

Well, now the obvious problem we have is that this new feature will crash our application if a user makes a typo in entering a date. One idea I had for a workaround is to use ON ERROR in our date textbox control to try to trap the invalid date/datetime value error.

If anyone else has any other ideas to address this issue, feel free to suggest!

Laterness,
Jon