We ran into a limitation while working with Date fields that include time. Our team works across multiple time zones, and we noticed that storing date + time sometimes creates inconsistencies in how entities appear for different users. Because of this, we decided that for this field we only need th…

Yes I just tried to upvote over there in fact, good to get the support of this feature!

This topic has reminded me of how much our users miss a Date Time with Optional Time entry in Podio. We solve this with three fields in Fibery, which is not ideal UX or UI: Date only if time unknown Datetime when time is also known Formula to show Datetime if set, and date at a certain predefined …

yes for sure agree here it’s good to have the option to add a time, but have to choose if you want time, or not…another feature of Notion although I think it’s poorly implemented, over there you need to always add manually a time field you can’t set it to be available on certain views, etc - so chan…

I can’t say how many times I had to delete one time field and create another, just because I didn’t realized it was date and time or only date…it was a lot of times. I like the idea of allowing the field type conversion with a warning would make schema adjustments much easier without breaking exist…

Allow changing the field type from DateTime → Date

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dmandan5 March 25, 2026, 5:40pm 2

This functionality is more broadly requested here: Add ability to fully edit fields after creation

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Allow changing the field type from DateTime → Date

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