Date Format in Crystal Reports

The data in the data base is stored as DateTime. I want to display the Datetime in the following format.
The data is stored in 6 minute interval. The Display has to be like this
07/28/2008 01:06
07/28/2008 01:12
07/28/2008 01:18
07/28/2008 01:24
07/28/2008 01:30
07/28/2008 12:00
07/28/2008 12:06
07/28/2008 12:12
07/28/2008 12:18
07/28/2008 13:00
Is there a way to achive this. I am sure there are lots of Date time functions. But I am not able to get it
in 13, 14 format.

I found a solution for the format that i need. Create two variables one for minute and one for hour
If length ("0" & Replace( totext({@hour}),".00", " ")) = 3 then
"0" & Replace( totext({@hour}),".00", " ") else
Replace( totext({@hour}),".00", " ")
If length ("0" & Replace( totext({@minute}),".00", " ")) = 3 then
"0" & Replace( totext({@minute}),".00", " ") else
Replace( totext({@minute}),".00", " ")
Then create a formula called
left( totext ( TableName.DATE} ),10) & {@hour_actual} &":" & Replace( totext( {@minute_actual} ),".00", " ")
Edited by: Srinivasa Prabu on Aug 11, 2008 10:07 PM

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