>12/30/1899 is the default date (for blank dates) if you are using VFP databases and VFP ODBC driver. I'm not sure what Oracle, or the other backends that you might connect to use as a default date when blank dates are encountered. You would have to test them.

In my case I found 1/1/1900 to be the default for blank dates for a field that resides in SQL Server (MSDE 7.0) and is read through remote views. A wrinkle is that the field is datetime in the table but date in the view. Does this ring a bell? Where can I find documentation?

Thanks again.

Alex