>Hi,
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>I have just recently discovered a bug in all version of FoxPro including VFP 5. If you turn century on and type a date in an empty date field with only two digits for year and press enter, then always the 19 is added to the two digit year you entered, no matter what date is set in your PC.
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>For example if I type 01/01/98 then it will be converted to 01/01/1998 even if your system date is 05/04/2001 !!
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>I mean shouldn't it be converted to 01/01/2098
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>I have even try to hook the Valid event but the value you get when you get control in the Valid event is 01/01/1998
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>What is the opinion of you peoples, is it going to be solved in VFP 6 or do we nerds have to make some workarounds?
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>Regards,
>
>Shahbaz Ahmer

The SET CENTURY ON | OFF | TO [nCentury [ROLLOVER nYear]] command will give you what you are looking for. You should be able to code the command to figure out the century based on the DATE() function. That way, no matter what century your system date is set to, it will always put in the desired century, without changing your command.

This should work:
SET CENTURY TO VAL(LEFT(DTOC(DATE(),1),2))

To test it out:
1. Change your system date to 20xx
2. Type the following into your command window

SET CENTURY TO VAL(LEFT(DTOC(DATE(),1),2))
? {02/16/56} && Displays 02/16/2056

3. Change your system date back to 19xx
4. Type the following into your command window

SET CENTURY TO VAL(LEFT(DTOC(DATE(),1),2))
? {02/16/56} && Displays 02/16/1956

Hope this helps.