I forgot to mention that the field DateCompleted is a datetime field
the problem remains the same even storing a blank datetime value to it



>I have a program that writes data to Outlook Task
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>In the Outlook Task I need the Date Task Completed field to be blank.
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>In VFP I am executing
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>.DateCompleted={}
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>but instead of an empty date I get the following
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>Mon 09/01/3454
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>The following works fine
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>.DateCompleted={18/02/2001}
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>If I try to use
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>.DateCompleted=.null.
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>I just get an error message so its not expecting a null value.
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>Does anyone have an idea how I can get a blank date in there