Hi Geoff

I'm using dialect 1 so fields defined as DATE act as (or IBO interprets as)
TIMESTAMP :-/

Paul

> Hi Paul,
>
> > Just another thought while you are looking at TIB_DateTimeEnh ;-)
> > Should the time edits show on the drop down panel when
> dtoShowTime is
> > false?
>
> Back on 21-Apr-2006 I see a note to myself in the code:
>
> "No longer taking any notice of the dtoShowTime,
> dto24HourTime, dtoShowSeconds options. These to be
> automatically configured according to the format and data type."
>
> So if the basic data type is date only it will not show and
> time inputs, if it is a timestamp it will show time.
>
> For date+time fields it will check the format and configure
> 24hr vs 12hr time display and whether seconds are displayed
> according to the format string.
>
>
> I realise now that this may not be ideal if you have reasons
> for overriding the underlying data type. Is this a problem
> for you? Why would you define a timestamp field and then
> only offer date editing (not time editing) ?
>
> --
> Geoff Worboys
> Telesis Computing
>