setting date variable with hours and mins

hello
sorry a bit of a newbie question but i dont have a book and ive searched online.

basically i have 2 variables representing hours and minutes and i want to make a date variable to represent the time using these 2 variables

ie
hours=16
mins=43
myTime =16:43

then i want to format system time to the same format so i can make an equals expression, ie if myTime is equal to systemTime then do an event.

ive tried using vbShortTime and Hh,Nn but i cant figure out the syntax

thanks in anticipation

I think u will use format function to join 2 variables to 1 date format variable.U can find this function on MSDN..But it's a easy way that get the system time to a date variable by using now() function at first,and use some string operation function get split this date variable to 2 string variable,at the last compare these string and your define time string..

thanks, i got it working with CDate and realisied vb allows u to compare 2 dates without any additional formatting

thanks