>By the way, can I access the millisecond portion of the datetime value?

Now that I'm playing with it, it seems to always store the datetime without milliseconds... and that seems to do away with the troubles there were in VFP6. Back then it was stored with milliseconds, but was indexed without them (if you had an index on a datetime), which was very confusing.

You may take a look at Thread #580685 Message #580685 and specially the whole Thread #469678 Message #469678.