>Fred,
>Hope you wouldn't mind, a little shortening (and then making it longer for independency to time formats):
>
>ttoc(ctot('0') + nSeconds,2) && also works as a shorter notation - VFP uses base date

Shorter is *usually* better and in this case it is.

>However this depends on time format settings and is only effective if elapsed time is not more than 24 hours. My suggestion is to use a longer independant way:
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>

lcHoursMins = ltrim(str(int(m.nSeconds/3600))) + ':'+ltrim(str(m.nSeconds%3600/60))

Cetin

Of course if the difference is greater than 24 hours, you would need some sort of custom format. Yours is as good as any.