>>>Hey Gurus....
>>>
>>>My mind is slipping in my old age.
>>>
>>>What is an easy(?) way to get the TIME component out of a DATETIME value (store the TIME part to a string variable)?
>>
>>There's no easy way, at least before VFP9.
>>

ltDt = DATETIME()
>>* VFP8
>>? TRANSFORM( RIGHT( TTOC(ltDt,1), 6), "@R 99:99:99")
>>* VFP9
>>? RIGHT( TTOC(ltDt,3), 8)
>>

>
>You think MS would've included a simple function to extract the time...!!!!

If you want the current time:

? TIME()