Sergey,

Way to go! Now they're probably scambling to 'fix' DTOS(). <g>

Alan

>Hi Alan,
>
>When date is set to LONG or SHORT VFP uses Windows API functions to do date manipulations. That's where {^1600-01-01} restriction comes from. My guess is that DTOS() still works in this case because it wasn't changed to use WIN API.
>
>I cannot remember where I read explanation
>
>>Very strange. For whatever reason, as you pointed out, with date set to short in VFP7, DTOC({01/01/1600}) resolves to an invalid date. Even doing this:
>>

x = {01/01/1600}
>>? x
>>

>>gives an invalid date on the second line.
>>
>>BUT VFP7 has no problems at all with
>>

? DTOS({01/01/1600})

>>
>>Some weird bug huh?