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BUG: @...GET Does Not Display the Complete Century Date

Article ID: 191683

Article Last Modified on 10/16/2002

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

This article was previously published under Q191683

SYMPTOMS

After issuing a SET CENTURY OFF command, a year of 2000 or greater appears truncated when displayed with @...GET command.

CAUSE

The @...GET command displays the entire date regardless of the value of SET CENTURY. This ensures that the current date value appears regardless of the century.

RESOLUTION

Add a SIZE clause to the @...GET command. For instance, change the code in the More Information section to read as follows:

@ 1,1 GET dDate FONT "arial"   SIZE 1,10
@ 3,1 GET dDate FONT "courier new" SIZE 1,10

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

This issue will most likely effect programmers converting legacy code. Normally, you would use a text box to display dates.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Create a program (.prg) file that contains the following code and run the program:

CLEAR
SET CENTURY OFF
dDate = {^2001/01/02}
@ 1,1 GET dDate FONT "arial"
@ 3,1 GET dDate FONT "courier new"
READ

Notice that the year appears truncated because Visual FoxPro places a four- digit year in the date even though you issue a SET CENTURY OFF command.

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