Or, cleaned up a bit:

FUNCTION olddate(thedate, offset)

* parameters: thedate: date to start from

* offset: number of years offset, positive or negative

* returns: nearest date to the offset that falls on the same day of the week

LOCAL thediff, theoffset

thediff = DOW(thedate)-DOW(gomonth(thedate, offset*12))

theoffset = IIF(thediff>3, 7-thediff, thediff)

RETURN GOMONTH(thedate, offset*12) + theoffset

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Ted Roche

Ted Roche & Associates, LLC

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