PRB: Can't Enter Valid Date with SET DATE and @ ... GET Date
Article ID: 113526
Article Last Modified on 5/6/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.5b
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.5a
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.5b
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.6 Standard Edition
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.0
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.5b for MS-DOS
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.5a
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.5b for MS-DOS
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.6 for MS-DOS
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.5b for Macintosh
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 2.5c for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q113526
SYMPTOMS
When you are entering a date with the date format specified as yy/mm/dd and
CENTURY set to ON, you cannot enter a valid date.
RESOLUTION
Regardless of the desire for the short date format of yy/mm/dd with SET
DATE ANSI and SET CENTURY ON, you must enter the date in the format:
2001/02/18.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
Keywords: kbprb KB113526