>>>>Works fine for me. Did you test it yoursef?
>>>>

>>>>set date BRITISH
>>>>
>>>>dater = "30/04/2015"
>>>>
>>>>timer = "09:57"
>>>>
>>>>? CTOT(dater + " " + timer)
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>>set date to british
>>>>>
>>>>>dater is 30/04/2015
>>>>>
>>>>>timer holds 09:57
>>>
>>>It start to work at 10:00 - how do I get round this?
>>
>>Hah?
>
>when timer is 00:00 to 09:59 it doesn't create the datatime field

It does. Run the code I posted