Thanks for replying Sergey,

Turns out the developer was getting those values from an access imported table that had datetime fields which looked empty but were not ??

I think it happened when we import the table via remote sql from the access mdb, either at the conversion stage or when we alter the resulting cursor to remove the accepts null attribute from all the fields




>I don't think thre're any settings that could case those two expressions to return .F. What

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>>What settings are involved taht would cause the following commands to return .F. ?
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>>? EMPTY({})
>>? EMPTY(DTOT({}))
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>>On one of my development machines these both return .T. from the command window, on another machine they return .f. ?
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>>TIA