You can't return a string as value from a C function. All you can do is to return a pointer to the string. I never tried it for a DLL function, but I don't think it will work from VFP (the function will return a pointer, so probably you'll receive in the string the address of the string, not the actual string.) But you can try it.

The sure solution: return the string in a parameter. (Call the function with param by address not by value: @MyReturnString).

Why don't you use the WIn32API function GetLocalTime?

Vlad

>How do I allow the function to return a string. As near as I can tell, you can't declare the function return type as "string".
>
>I've declared the dll in VFP as such:
> DECLARE STRING ConvertTime IN Timeconv AS ConvertTime
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>So how do I make ConvertTime() (code above) return a string?