Hello again ...

Say, am I missing something or does the "DateTime" in the control name DateTimePicker refer to the DateTime structure rather than a Date and Time selection mechanism ?

I'm trying to use it to select a date and a time of day. I can see that it permits one to select a date very nicely indeed, but no matter what I click on, double-click on, right click on, or click-using-small-toe-of-left-foot on, I don't see a clock that would permit one to select hours and minutes.

In reading the blurb in the 'Help' section (normally, very helpful indeed), I see that it refers the reader to a discussion of custom formatting strings, but setting the custom format property with a string which contains time-of-day formatting does not seem to help.

Consequently, never having seen the control before, I must ask if I am simply failing to program it properly to get a clock icon, or does it not provide a mechanism for setting time of day ....

in summary does 'DateTimePicker' mean date and time-of-day selection mechanism, or DateTime Structure selection mechanism (with fixed time)?

For the moment, I use it to select the date only, and provide a separate text box for the user to enter the designated execution time in hours and minutes, but if there's a cool way to do it using the datetimepicker, I sure would like to know.

Can anyone out there help this poor, age-muddled fool ?

thanks.

bill