Date is one of those data types that is very unique to FoxPro, or at least, not that common in other programming languages. Most other languages have some sort of datetime data type that combines a date with the time during that day.

Our application needs to talk to quite a few other applications. Recently I replaced the existing DDE based interface with a COM based one. The vendor of the other application provides a COM server that controls their application and passes data back and forth. My first attempt in Visual FoxPro looked like this