>But it's doing some extra steps, which you can remove without making it >(IMHO) less readable.

>In the first line, if you start by finding March 1st instead of February >1st, you don't need the GOMONTH() in the second line.

>Also, why is the first line using slower CTOD() instead of DATE()? Instead >of CTOD("02/01/"+STR(YEAR(tdate))), I'd use DATE(YEAR(tddate)),03,01).

You are absolutely right, on both accounts. I guess I used CTOD out of bad habit! There are so many ways to do things in Fox.