>>>>>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
>
>I've tested all the values in a loop and everything was OK. Can you show your code and also identify the failing entries?
>
>

>set date BRITISH
>clear
>dater = "30/04/2015"
>
>FOR k=0 TO 10
>FOR i=0 TO 59
>	timer =  PADL(k,2,"0") + ":" + PADL(i,2, '0')
>	? CTOT(dater + " " + timer)
>endfor	
>endfor

replace fstat WITH CTOT(dater+" "+timer) where fstat is a date time field