>>>>>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)
>>>>

>>>
>>>Thanks Gregory. Then it needs converting to a format readable to a British eye/brain, with "_" separators, etc. It's not that important :-)
>>>
>>>Terry
>>
>>Terry,
>>
>>That's easy
>>

>>?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 :-)

?strtran(ttoc(datetime()), '/', '_')