Hi Evan,

>time arithmetic 2:32pm - 7:00am = ??

Datetime formats a subtractable, adn the result is in Numeric type. But a date would be required to make this somewhat safe to use

Examples

1. 9/23/99 11:40 AM - 9/22/99 11:40 PM

This would show up as -12 if not for the dates

2. 2:00 PM - 1:30 PM

30 minutes right? maybe its 24 hrs 30 min, or 48 hrs and 30 min

>storing of time value in table without having to convert to either numeric or datetime format

VFP will return a difference between times (datetime() - datetime()) in seconds which happens to be of numeric type, so that would have to change (otherwise you would have to convert it, which is what you want to avoid).

>ability to make global time format changes across app

Can't this happen know? I'm not positive.

>easy validation of well and poorly contructed time

I don't understand this one. You mean by user input?

I could think of other enhancements to Time related function, however:

?SECONDS([ttTime])

for example, where ttTime is any time DateTime format and it returns the seconds past midnight. This wouldn't be as useful now as it was before you could directly subtract T types (or could you always?).