>>>Is there a convenient way to do arithmetic with dates and times in
>>>VFP? To be specific, I am continually updating data in a grid and
>>>would like to notify the user of the time of the *next* update (say,
>>>15 minutes after the previous one).
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>Now Ed! He wants to do math and he did say he is a novice.
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>Paul try this:
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>[The next update will occur at ]+subst(time(),1,3)+alltrim(str(val(subst(time(),4,2))+15))
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>To get this:
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>The next update will occur at 16:50
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>DJ :o)

Donald,
That won't work because at 16:50, if you use the above command, the next update will occur at 16:05. I think the solution would be a bit more complex than that.