COM always uses DATETIME. If you pass a date to a COM server, it will receive a Datetime, and vice versa for the return value. Also, make sure the DATE() is correct on the server.

>Hello. I'm having a strange problem with DATES in my VFP 7/8 COM servers. For some reason, date calculations are not working as expected.
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>I use the following calculation to determine the beginning of the month. When I call this from any class, form, etc., it works fine, but when I access the same function in a COM server, it always returns yesterdays date.
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>ldBOM=( DATE() - DAY( DATE() ) ) + 1
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>Does anyone have any ideas?
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>Thanks!