>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a report which shows the date and the time when the report is printed (on the top of the report). I use the following expression:
>>

>>TTOC( DATETIME() )
>>

>>This prints the date and time exactly as I want to. Except it also prints the seconds. I prefer to print only hours and minutes and PM/AM.
>>
>>I know that I can Set Seconds Off.
>>But, I am wondering, is it possible to Set Seconds Off somewhere in the Report (FRX file) and then restore the setting?
>
>Some possible approaches:
>1. Just before you run the report, SET SECONDS OFF. Then, just after running, SET SECONDS ON (or to whatever the value was before the report was run)
>2. Create a UDF, something like MyTTOC(), and use that as your expression:

>FUNCTION MyTTOC
>LOCAL lcSetSeconds, lcRetVal
>
>m.lcSetSeconds = SET( "SECONDS" )
>SET SECONDS OFF
>m.lcRetVal = TTOC( DATETIME() )
>SET SECONDS ( m.lcSetSeconds )
>
>RETURN m.lcRetVal
>ENDFUNC

>3. Look at report PEMs and put appropriate SET SECONDS calls at the beginning and end (maybe Report DataEnvironment?)
>4. This is an ugly hack, but if useable PEMs aren't available you could put dummy non-printing fields at the report top and bottom and in the expression call a UDF to SET SECONDS for you
>
>In the past I've favoured technique #2.

I know about the approach 1. And I will try your approach no 2. Thank you.