Date and Time form field time is incorrect

[HeatherA_54]

Any suggestions please.....

I have inserted a date/time field into my form using Adobe Creative Cloud/Adobe Acrobat Pro DC and when I create the field it shows the right time but when I go into the form and select today's date the shows the date correctly but the time remains at 8.22am regardless of what the time actually is....I waited several hours and tried again and the time on the form still remains as 8.22am - see below

many thanks

Heather

[kglad]

[moved from Adobe Creative Cloud to PDF Forms]

[gkaiseril]

Your format assumes both date and time as entry values, using the date picker only modifies the date, to update the time one needs to go back and edit the time or manually enter both the date and time. You could use a script to automatically change the time to the system's time but this would prevent the full manual entry of the date time.

If you need to update both the date and time, I would use 2 separate fields, one the date and one for the time, and then either create a field of the combined values or combine the values in a script.

[Bernd Alheit]

You must enter the time with the keyboard.

[try67]

It's just an example, it's not the actual value of the field.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

If you want to update the field's value when you click it use this code as its OnFocus script:

event.target.value = util.printd("m/d/yyyy h:MM tt", new Date());

[HeatherA_54]

Thanks - tried this but still can't get it to work

[try67]

You'll need to provide more details if you want further help.

[HeatherA_54]

Excellent news!!!!...I now have it working Gilad - thank you for your help

cheers

Heather