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…

this issue is related. More Flexible Date FIeld . Could solve most of the problems I see in this thread. maybe related enough to merge this thread into that one? Changing field type broadly is already covered in Add ability to fully edit fields after creation

Allow changing the field type from DateTime → Date

Ideas & Features

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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