Sergey,

>It's not the end of the world. :-)
>Write your own function, submit ER and get over it.

I have not problem to write any type of functions,
but if anybody ( VFPT member ) define a special litteral date ( strict ),
invariant respect to the setting,
then the first thing he ( VFPT member )
must implement is a function

DTOS(date,3) -->  {^yyyy/mm/dd}

Sergey, this is not a big task! (1-2 hours ( parser + C implementation )).

But rewrite this on many VFP installations is a big task
( 2' x 10000 times = 40 days )

Fabio