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4. Press Enter or Tab, or click outside the Inspector to apply the changes.
Important No matter how you format a date field in Layout mode, whenever you click or tab
into the field in Browse mode, FileMaker
Pro displays the date with a four-digit year.
FileMaker recommends that you always enter dates with four-digit years. If you enter dates
with two-digit years, they are converted to four-digit year dates as described in
Conversion
of dates with two-digit years.
Notes
• When As entered is selected, FileMaker Pro will display dates with four-digit years, even if
you originally entered the dates with two-digit years. Use the Custom option or one of the
two-digit year options on the Format list described above to display dates with two-digit
years.
• Be sure to size the date field on the layout according to the format you choose. For
example, the date Monday, May 5, 2014 needs more room than 5/5/14. See
Resizing and
reshaping objects.
• To format a date symbol (which displays the current date), select the symbol {{CurrentDate}}
in Layout mode, and then use the Data Formatting area of the Inspector to format it as you
would a date field as described above. For more information about the date symbol, see
Inserting the date, page number, or other variable onto a layout.
• To make it easier to enter dates in a field in Browse mode, you can set up the field to display
a
drop-down calendar.
• For more information about defining date fields, see About date fields.
Related topics
Defining conditional formatting for layout objects
Specifying formats for time fields
You can control how FileMaker Pro displays time values in fields.
To specify formats for time fields:
1. In Layout mode, select one or more time fields or calculation fields with a time result.
For more information, see Selecting objects.
2. Click Inspector in the layout bar, then click Data.
3. In the Data Formatting area, click Time , then select the formats you want to use from
the Format list.
To display times Do this
Exactly as entered For Format, select As entered.