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How do I concatenate a date and a time to make a datetim
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From
29/01/2004 14:57:11
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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29/01/2004 14:50:48
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00871983
Message ID:
00871987
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29
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>Hi there,
>
>I'm working on an application written in VFP 7.0.
>
>I have a class object form for user input, in which the fields can be set up (at runtime) to accept Date, time, char, or logical data, depending on what my app specifies when the user input form is created using CREATEOBJECT. It's working fine. My problem is that I'm returning a date from one field and a time from another one. The date's type is Date and the time's type is Char. I need to use those values to query data in my FoxPro database, and would like to easily concatenate the date and time to make a valid datetime to use in my query.
>
>Any ideas on a quick way to do this?

I don't know whether this is "quick" enough; or whether there is a better method. But you can create a datetime value with the datetime() function.

Assuming your time is in a format like:
02:15:15

or

 2:15:15 && starts with a space
you might use:
MyDateTimeValue = datetime(year(MyDate), month(MyDate), day(MyDate),;
  val(left(MyTime, 2)), val(substr(MyTime, 4, 2)), val(substr(MyTime, 7, 2)))
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