How about using GUID's ?? microsoft claims there are truly unique...
see if this works for you...

satya


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Private Declare Function CoCreateGuid Lib "OLE32.DLL" _
    (pGUID As GUID) As Long

Private Declare Function StringFromGUID2 Lib "OLE32.DLL" _
    (pGUID As GUID, _
     ByVal PointerToString As Long, _
     ByVal MaxLength As Long) As Long

Private Type GUID
    Guid1 As Long
    Guid2 As Long
    Guid3 As Long
    Guid4(0 To 7) As Byte
End Type

Public Function CreateGUID() As String

    Dim udtGUID As GUID
    Dim sGUID As String
    Dim lResult As Long

    lResult = CoCreateGuid(udtGUID)

    If lResult Then
        sGUID = ""
    Else
        sGUID = String$(38, 0)
        StringFromGUID2 udtGUID, StrPtr(sGUID), 39
    End If

    CreateGUID = sGUID

End Function   
 '--end code block


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Johnston" <sam.johnston@j...>
To: "professional vb" <pro_vb@p...>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 8:04 PM
Subject: [pro_vb] Unique Number Identifyer


> Is there a function that I can use to obtain a Julian date (such as
> number of days transpired since Jan 01, 1970)? and then get the
> equivalent in time (such as seconds since midnight)?  I am building an
> event tracker and need to have some sort of unique ID for each event.
> By using Julian Date / Time then combining it with some unique event
> type ID, I think it will do the trick.  Any thoughts?
>  
> Sam
>  
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> Visual C# - A Guide for VB6 Developers
> This book will make it easy to transfer your skills 
> from Visual Basic 6 to C#, the language of choice 
> of the .NET Framework.
> http://www.wrox.com/ACON11.asp?ISBN=1861007175&p2p0059
> 
> 


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