>>Hi,
>>
>>Say I have a variable that contains a date. I want to add to it the current time and make the value DateTime type.
>>How do you do it? TIA
>
>This is what I tried:
>
>

>? CTOT( DTOC(DATE()) + TIME())
>

>the above works.
>But if I use a variable, in the following:
>

>dDate = DATE()
>? CTOT( DTOC(dDate) + TIME())
>

>
>The returned value is empty string. I don't understand why.

You missed a space:

?CTOT( DTOC(dDate) +' '+ TIME())