Crystal Reports Layout and Time Field

Good evening Crystal Reports and SAP experts:
Beforehand i would like to thank everyone for the support thats always given, i appreciate it very much. Today yet again i find mysefl in a problem, when i try to take the field DocTime from table ORDR (creation time of a sales order) Crystal Reports displays it in a Integer Value format instead of a time format, (Example: 3:23 pm its 323 as number). I was hoping anyone would know how to extract the values as a time format.
Again thanks in advance.

You just need to create formula to split number and show the time format.
Thanks,
Gordon

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