>>>>>>>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
>
>I have one question:
>Why you need 3 fields to keep one data?
>Why not use only fstat and get rid of other two?

Because I import the file and the other 2 fields are what is impoted - I need then to create a dattime field