(just discovered this still in my Navigator 'out' tray - apologies if I've already sent it. And apologies for the delay if I haven't!)

>>and how, exactly do we address the time element of a datetime field anyway?
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>TIME(DATETIME())
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>Keep in mind though, that there is no Time data type in VFP, so the results of the previous expression are character.

thanks for that Eric.

Now the question is, when is vfp going to let us use an ON DATETIME (some date and time) (do whatever) which I remember being able to do on my humble Sinclair Spectrum using 'BetaBasic' back in the 1900s....

Harry