>>My program has the following code
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>>datexo=LEFT(datx,2)+"/"+monato+"/20"+SUBSTR(datx,8,2)+" "+SUBSTR(datx,11,6)+":00"
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>>which results in a data like 28/10/2015 10:30:00 still in character format
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>>its then appended into a date time field
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>>This works fine as long as I run it from inside VFP on all machines
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>>But if I run it as a scheduled service or from Explorer on 1 machine the date time field is blank although the character format is the same 28/10/2015 10:30:00
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>>What is the problem?
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>I don't know what the specific problem is, but there's no reason to build a datetime that way. Use the DATETIME() function and then, you're not dependent on the date format or anything else.
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>tDateTime = DATETIME(nYear, nMonth, nDay, nHour, nMinute, nSecond)
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>I'll leave it to you to figure out how to get those values from what you have in hand.
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>Tamar

I have tried the fields in the expression as characters and then as numeric ant it fails both times - should they be character or numeric?