IF TTOC(tDateTime,2) = "12:00:00 AM" WAIT WIND "Hey! No time entered!" RETURN .F. ENDIF RETURN .T.>i have three fields in my table date , hour and minute. but instead of keeping three fields , i am more interested to keep single datetime field. but problem in datetime is if user does not enter time ,then it takes vfp's default time(midnight time). what i should do ? should i keep three fields separate?because hour and minute fields would be character and it requires validations for proper value