>Sergey
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>I thought of that but I am using the index purely to do a seek. Since each entry is unique (within the data there can't be 2 dockets of the same number created at the same date & time) it shouldn't make any difference to the seek should it?
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>Colin
No it doesn't but result returned by ttoc(created,1) isn't affected by VFP DATE/TIME settings. On other hand ttoc(created) could return different results depending on those settings. Maybe you've different DATE/TIME settings when you do REINDEX?
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