Crystal Report 8.5 (Date/Time Tab Missing)

Hi All,
I have been using Crystal Reports Pro 8.5 (SP3) for a while now but I have come across one problem which I cannot understand.
All Date and Time fields within our SQL database are showning in Crystal as only Date fields even though they are definately Date Time field. If I explore the field data within Crystal it only shows me the Date field.
The interesting twist is my work colleague has got the same O/S Windows 7 and the exact same version of Crystal as me and he is able to see the Date/Time tab when formatting the field and Crystal identifies the field as a DateTime field.
Any help would be much appericated.
Thanks

Hello,
It's the ODBC driver you are using, or how ever you are connecting. They are likely using a newer version which CR see's the data/time field type and not convert it to a date field.
Or it could be one of your Report Options. 8.5 is 10 years old not so I don't recall what the reason for this was now.
Check your database driver and settings.
Thank you
Don

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