>>>How so, amd why not suggest an alternative? It's just a cheap & cheerful way of generating a (fairly) unigue file name.
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>>lcDateStr = ttoc(datetime(), 1)
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>Thanks Gregory. Then it needs converting to a format readable to a British eye/brain, with "_" separators, etc. It's not that important :-)
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>Terry

Terry,

That's easy

?transform(ttoc(datetime(),1), '@R ####_##_##_##:##:##')
?transform(ttoc(datetime(),1), '@R ####-##-##_##:##:##')