Nadya...

SET SECONDS seems to have no impact on ADIR(). Since the date and time are returned as a Date and Character string (respectively), you'd probably have some formatting to do...

Scott

>Hi Scott:
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>> Craig is right: you can get the 12 hour format with a simple SET command, and you can get rid of the seconds with SET SECONDS.
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> Do these settings influence on the character string (time) which returns by adir() function, do you know? Or I still need to convert this string in the right format?
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>I had written the UDF a)before we had the DATETIME() function :) and b)to get rid of the leading "0" in the time.