Yes, Sergey said the same in a message to somebody else. Still, I think it should say so in the 'Set Seconds' topic ('Set Hours' too). In any topic, if there is an exception, then it should say so in the topic.

>>Fabio, I don't see anything in the help file that says it doesn't work with SET DATE SHORT or SET DATE LONG, so why isn't it a bug (at least a bug in the help file).
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>Alan, it is a Documentation issue ( it is normal ).
>I read :
>SHORT
> Short datetime format determined by the Windows Control Panel short datetime setting.
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>SET HOURS TO has the same behaviour.
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>SET DATE TO SHORT
>SET HOURS TO 24
>SET SECONDS ON
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>CLEAR
>? DATETIME( )  && Displays time value with the seconds portion
>SET HOURS TO 12
>SET SECONDS OFF  && Displays time value without the seconds portion
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>? DATETIME( )
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>Fabio