What about:
lddate=date()
?datetime(year(lddate)-3,month(lddate), day(lddate))

The only problem I see here for february 29 of the leap year (it will return empty date for initial lddate=02/29/2000).

>I want to know if someone has a neet function to add/substract whole years to a date or datetime. It needs to take into account leap years and check that it doesn't produce illegal dates (ex: add 5 years to Feb 29 2004).
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>I know I could code the long way - but is there some FOXPRO function (foxpro has a function for everything) or ellegant snippet that I can use.
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>Thanks from frigid Ottawa Canada