>>Hi everybody,
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>>I decided to update my VFPStart program to allow automatically insert my initials and date in the short format, e.g.:
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>>* Insert modidate
>>on key label f3 keyboard 'Nadya Nosonovsky '+ttoc(datetime()) plain && Insert modidate
>>on key label Alt+U keyboard 'Updated:NN: '+dtoc(date()) plain && Insert modidate

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>>However, I want to to have dates like 02/02/02, etc. , is where a simple way besides substr() or changing set century back and forth?
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STRTRAN(dtoc(date()), "200", "0")

for the next 7 years.


Not a general one, anyway, I think, this would be enough for now :)
I removed / because separators could be different for different set date formats