>>You Tom,
>>
>>You can use SECONDS() function to get time up to miliseconds. See help for details.
>>

>>? TTOC(DATETIME(),1) + PADL(INT(SECONDS()*100 % 100), 2, "0")
>>

>>
>
>True, but I want the seconds that was at the moment that the TTOC(datetime(),1) was captured at.....
>
>mytime = datetime()
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>? ttoc(mytime,1) to print CCYYMMDDhhmmss
>
>but how to get the seconds ss part from the mytime??
>
>*****************
>
>Will this work?
>
>

>lcDateTime =  TTOC(DATETIME(),1)
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>lcDecimalSeconds =   LEFT(RIGHT(ALLTRIM(STR(SECONDS(),10,3)),3),2)
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>? lcDateTime + lcDecimalSeconds
>
>

>
>The Decimal Seconds part will probable not be the same as what the datetime was captured at, but I guess for my purposes, which is to get a file name created WHEN the file was created, is good enough.

How is it different from the code I provided?

If you want "real time', check Windows Time Download #9738