# Add a default time to DateTime fields

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/add-a-default-time-to-datetime-fields/7504>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Tags:** dates\
**Created:** [October 7, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/add-a-default-time-to-datetime-fields/7504 "2024-10-07T16:25:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cannibalflea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/cannibalflea/32/318_2.png) [@cannibalflea](https://community.fibery.io/u/cannibalflea)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/add-a-default-time-to-datetime-fields/7504/1 "2024-10-07T16:25:50Z")

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Similar to other requests for adding defaults to base field types, I am wondering if it would be possible to add a parameter in field settings to allow setting a default time. Currently, when you set the date component, it defaults to 12:00 am:

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I am wondering if that can be set to be a different time based on user preference. I know that time is a tricky thing because of timezones and you may not want to allow users to define a default time based on a particular timezone, but even being able to say all tasks have a default due time of EOD which is 5:00 pm (at the users local time) is more useful than assuming midnight local time.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Ichter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/michael_ichter/32/9931_2.png) [@Michael\_Ichter](https://community.fibery.io/u/Michael_Ichter)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 7:29am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/add-a-default-time-to-datetime-fields/7504/2 "2024-10-08T07:29:52Z")

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This would be helpful for us because of some of the automated notifications we have set up. We have an automation notifying users for entities with a due date of “Today”, and the automation runs at 9:00 am. I would expect that to include the 12:00 am tasks (9 hours before the automation runs). In other words, October 8 12:00 am is the same day as October 8 9:00 am. However, I find that the entities with a 12:00 am date are actually accounted for the prior day. So the notification sent on October 7 9:00am includes entities with a due date of October 8 12:00 am.

When our people set a due date but don’t specify time, they always mean that it is due by the end of the day.

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**Author:** ![Polina\_Zenevich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/polina_zenevich/32/480_2.png) [@Polina\_Zenevich](https://community.fibery.io/u/Polina_Zenevich)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/add-a-default-time-to-datetime-fields/7504/3 "2024-10-09T15:58:26Z")

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Hi!  
Thank you both for the ideas!  
I’m afraid we don’t have such improvements in the nearest future plans, but saved them for the future 💪