>I have a database that contains a 5 character field for 24 hour clock which is entered as hh:mm . I have a seperate date field in date format mm/dd/yyyy.
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>I would like to combine both of these into the foxpro datetime format.
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>Suggestions?

Sure:

tdatetime = DATETIME(YEAR(ddate), MONTH(ddate), DAY(ddate), VAL(LEFT(ctime, 2)), VAL(RIGHT(ctime, 2)))

Of course, this is VFP 6.0.