>>>>>>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()), '/', '_')
>

I guess that would work, except that I'm a bit chary of using ":" and spaces in a filename, a hang-up to the old DOS days, I guess. You never know when a certain package won't recognise the chars in the filename as legal,

At least it's DEFINITELY precise about when the file was created, heh ?-)

Thanks

Terry