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Is it possible to cycle through one datetime control with the TAB Key? At the moment you just change focus between those two controls.
But when one control has the focus, you can just change one attribute (e.g. the hour, the day). When you press TAB again, the focus changes to the other control back again.

I know it's just a small thing, but I'm used to press the Tab Key to jump to the next attribute.

Other than making the Tab key into a hotkey, I don't think it can be done because DateTime controls aren't designed to respond to Tab. However, they do respond to keys such as the arrow keys, which can be used to navigate from one date element to the next, or to change the values.

Ok, I see. But making TAB into a Hotkey is not an option. In this way I would loose the native ability of TAB to switch focus between the various GUI controls.

So I have to bite the bullet and use the arrow keys instead.

I'm not sure if it would work in this case, but you could try using ~Tab:: as a hotkey (the tilde makes the Tab keystroke pass through to the active window). If your Gui window is active, the hotkey could send Shift-Tab to go back to the previous control and then maybe send a {Right} keystroke to advance within the DateTime control.