>>>>How so, amd why not suggest an alternative? It's just a cheap & cheerful way of generating a (fairly) unigue file name.
>>>
>>>
>>>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
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>Terry,
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>That's easy
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>?transform(ttoc(datetime(),1), '@R ####_##_##_##:##:##')
>?transform(ttoc(datetime(),1), '@R ####-##-##_##:##:##')
>
Aye, but it still goes to reverse order (indexing) date - I'd want it in Brit format, like "21_09_2006_1136"
See? It's still a faff :-)
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