how to display a midnight value

[phill86]

Hi,

I am trying to enter a date/time "general date" format in a table and a form as follows

01/01/2008 12:00:00

but as soon as i enter 02/01/2008 00:00:00 the 00:00:00 disapears and i need to be able to display it in my from.

also if i just type in the time value as 00:00:00 it remains

am i just being really dumb?

please help this is driving me nuts

[Stewart Ross]

Hi. The General Date format is doing what it is supposed to do - it displays a date if there is one, or a time if there is no date - but not both. To have both shown at the same time, enter the following custom format in the format property of the table field or control concerned (in place of the words General Date if this is the default)

dd/mm/yyyy hh:nn (uk format)
mm/dd/yyyy hh:nn (us format)

If you need the AM and PM times distinguished add AM/PM to the end of the custom format.

-Stewart

[phill86]

Hi. The General Date format is doing what it is supposed to do - display a date if it is a date, or a time if it is a time. To have both at the same time, you need to enter the following custom format in the format property of the table field or control concerned:

dd/mm/yyyy hh:nn (uk format)
mm/dd/yyyy hh:nn (us format)

If you need the AM and PM times distinguished add AM/PM to the end of the custom format.

-Stewart

Hi Stewart

Sorted thanks
Cheers Phill

[NeoPa]

Dates are stored as integer values and times are stored as fractions of an integer.

As midnight is essentially 0 seconds into any day, the time portion of the value = 0. Thus it looks like a date on its own.

Without explicit formatting, a date alone is displayed as a date, a time alone is displayed as a time and a date / time value is shown as both.

Midnight is assumed to be a stand-alone date therefore the time element is not shown by default.