Hi Vlad:
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>Short and Long date format is determined by Control Panel -> Regional Settings -> Date. You can easy remove displaying the day of the week from there and using System Settings option in VFP options dialog box, Reginal tab (that is appropriate to SET SYSFORMATS command). Let users define how they want see long dates.
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This makes sense. My concern was only to provide the user with the right interpretation of the date.

>If you still need to see dates in formats you described FIXED, you should not use long date format at al and not depend on it, as you see, because user might change the format. Just use dat functions for this, for example:
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>? cmonth(date()) + " " + padl(day(date()),2,"0") + ", " + ltrim(str(year(date())))
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I will try this out. Thanks Vlad.

- Ravi

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