>>I scheduled jobs for late at night with the Windows Task Scheduler. This >one has a lot of options, and I think it is not worthwhile to "reinvent the >wheel" by writing a VFP program.
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>The reason I'm doing this in VFP is:

I think your arguments make a lot of sense. My own scheduling is less demanding, but you definitely have more control over some details if you program it yourself - and in your case, you seem to need it.

I still think time() is not the most appropriate function to use, but mainly because it returns a string, not a datetime value.

In a previous reply, I gave you some suggestions, mainly for debugging purposes.

One interesting way to get the time - either from your local machine or from the server - is to create a file on the disk (perhaps with LLFF), and check its creation date/time.

I assume there are also API functions that can return the system time. But, the built-in time functions should work correctly, and I don't know exactly what is going awry.

Hilmar.