Thanks for the right track. I got locked in on all the TTOC, DTOC, etc. I always forget about Transform(). The following works:

trans(hour(mytime))+':'+trans(minute(mytime))

>Hi Mark,
>
>Does trans(hour(mytime))+':'+trans(sec(mytime)) work for you?
>
>>>>I am trying to do time math and VFP tacks on an implicit 12/30/1899 date to the beginning of all my times.
>>>
>>>What are you doing that doesn't require a date?
>>
>>Start Time, Current Time, Estimated Completion Time display to a user importing data. It is not an all day deal [maybe 90 minutes max] so the date is superfluous.