javascript for automatic time format

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August 23, 2018
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Hello my dears, I'm looking for a script for a text box in which I enter the time. At the moment I have assigned the field a format (HH: MM), and if the user enters HH.MM he gets an alert. But I would like the field to automatically switch to my chosen format (similar to an Excel spreadsheet). So: the user types 9.30 and in my text field appears 09:30. Is there a script for it? (Acrobat Pro DC 2018) Can someone help? Thanks in advance!

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gkaiseril

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You should be aware that some users track time in decimal hours, so 9.30 might mean 9:18 (30/100 of an hour) and not 9:30. How would you treat values like 9-30, 9 30 or 9.50?

This might not be as simple as you would like.There are some good reasons there is a different format for time from decimal numbers.

try67

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To do that you would need to create your own Keystroke, Format and possibly Validation scripts.

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Elsje2002Author

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I thought so. Unfortunately, my javascript is not good enough to do that. I thought maybe someone knows a script, which I can then enter in the calculation ...

At the moment the user just gets this message "The entered value does not match the format of the field"- and that is not user friendly...

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gkaiseril

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Set the format to "None" and see what happens.

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