>Hi Agnes and Christof
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>>I use a textbox, bound to characters. The input is formated. There is a method that does all the calculations I need wich is called from textboxes valid. This method will write the datetime values as well as the difference.
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>>The odds are that I need a character representation of my datetime values and a way to check wrong input etc.
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>No way I can bound to the DateTime field and use the picture clause to get only the time section ?
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>Thanks both for your responses.

Yes, there is no way I know of.

Agnes