i just found this in my notes, i can see where i got it from. thanks for the info.

A common question is what is the date or time right now? To answer that, VB has 3 functions available. The Date function returns the current date, the Time function returns the current time and the Now function returns the current time and date.

Actually, all three return time/date because all three return a variable of type Date. In previous versions of VB, there was no Date type. Instead, the functions returned a Double. Today, you can still treat the Date Type as if it were a double.

The Date type is an 8 byte double precision floating point number representing the number of days since midnight, Dec 30, 1899. The fractional part of the date represents the time in days. So 12 noon would be half a day, or 0.5.

For instance if the time/date now were Aug 8, 2002 6:00 PM, the values of the three functions would be:
Now() = 37476.75
Date() = 37476
Time() = 0.75
thank you.
casey.