For many years my filing has used a kind of 'modified-ISO' 12-digit date/time
pattern: -MMDD-HHmm. Advantages are that it is compact, easily read, sorts
and is a valid filename string in all OS.
Writer has very flexible field formats, giving the option to format
Date fields as
Den fre 31 juli 2020 kl 20:57 skrev John Kaufmann :
> For many years my filing has used a kind of 'modified-ISO' 12-digit
> date/time pattern: -MMDD-HHmm. Advantages are that it is compact,
> easily read, sorts and is a valid filename string in all OS.
>
> Writer has very flexible fiel
On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 23:28:54 +0200
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> Den fre 31 juli 2020 kl 20:57 skrev John Kaufmann :
>
> > For many years my filing has used a kind of 'modified-ISO' 12-digit
> > date/time pattern: -MMDD-HHmm. Advantages are that it is
> > compact, easily read, sorts and is a val
Thank you to all the members who replied so promptly to my request for
help. It is very much appreciated.
One member sent me advice of another method to achieve what I wanted and
I am delighted to say it worked and I now have a database with the
fields I need, with one Table and one Form. I'm
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On 7/31/20 20:14, zed wrote:
Thank you to all the members who replied so promptly to my request for
help. It is very much appreciated.
One member sent me advice of another method to achieve what I wanted
and I am delighted to say it worked and I now have a database with the
On 1/08/20 2:14 pm, Dan Lewis wrote:
Comments inline:
On 7/31/20 20:14, zed wrote:
Thank you to all the members who replied so promptly to my request for
help. It is very much appreciated.
One member sent me advice of another method to achieve what I wanted
and I am delighted to say it work
On 2020-07-31 17:28, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
Den fre 31 juli 2020 kl 20:57 skrev John Kaufmann:
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Draw also appears to be not flexible, but uses /different/
formatting for Date (MM/DD/) and Time (HH:mm:ss AM|PM). This seems to
be the worst of all possible choices, because the
On 2020-07-31 18:26, Dave Howorth wrote:
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I agree though that it's strange that fields don't work the same over
the whole suite. Seems like someone unnecessarily re-invented the
wheel, and did that more than once…
I agree with those sentiments. I'm in the UK and Draw doesn't offer me
any cho