I was trying to use the same DATETIME field in several fields with different format. for example a date field: date1 with format: dd-MM-yyyy and the same date1, with format: HH:mm
If I now, fill in the first field the date: 01-10-2004
and than fill in the time in the other field: 12:15
than my first field (date) is written back to: 01-01-1970
It would be handy, that if we had a property that we could set, that this does NOT happen, so it does not change the date-portion, or viceversa it does not change the time-portion.
this is not possible at the moment. Because this is just how formatting works. It just makes a complete new date from the things you fill in. it doesn’t or can’t take the current as base!
so when displaying:
date → text format
then after a edit:
text format → date
And if the display fase throws away data because you don’t show it. It will never be there after the edit fase..
Well, we need something to streamline date-time entry…
How about a souped-up calendar field? It sure would be nice to get date and time into a datetime object in one pass. This of course would be a Java/plug-in job.