Indra

I am not familiar with FoxPro, but just looking at your code, it appears
that the string you are ultimately trying to convert to a date looks like
this:  3-13-99 [for march 3, 1999].  FoxPro may not like the "-" character
for conversion to a date datatype.  Try a "/" character.  That is more
likely an acceptable date character.

Another reason may be the way that FoxPro handles dates.  If a date is
treated as a number [ie the number of seconds since Jan. 1, 1919 or
something like that ] then you may have to do some other fancy manipulations
to create the date.

Mike Buraczewski
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From: Indra Sofiar <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 1:33 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Help



store day(date()) to myday
store month(date()) to mymonth
newyear = year(date()) - 16

newdate = alltrim(str(mymonth)) + "-" + alltrim(str(myday)) + ;
"-" + alltrim(str(newyear))

? "Current date is " + newdate + "."

! date newdate

Unfortunately, it wouldn't work and always ended up in "INVALID DATE".

I have tried to change the data type ("newdate") into Character, Numeric,
Date but it still wouldn't work. Why?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Indra Sofyar

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