I have run into many use cases where I don’t need the date associated with a time field. Why because the entity itself is already associated with a day, or the is no day associated with the time. I will give some examples: I am building a weather integration that automatically pulls in weather dat…

would also find this very useful

My client wants his employees to log the starting and ending time of work at a customer, so he can calculate how long they were there. His employees are working from their phones. It is a hassle to fill in the date every time (pun not intended :wink:). Can ‘exclude date’ be added as an option for th…

Not the same, but related issue, especially if considering modifying the existing date field capabilities: More Flexible Date FIeld

i believe these can be merged. Add Duration as a valid field type

I don’t think so. I think duration field is equivalent to ‘date timeA - datetimeB’ (expressed in whatever units are appropriate) so it could be e.g. 47 mins, whereas time field is just a fixed point within a 24hr period, e.g. 11:13:26 (13 mins and 26 seconds past 11 o’clock). They could become fun…

Ah, I think we see this differently. [image] Chr1sG: I think duration field is equivalent to ‘date timeA - datetimeB’ (expressed in whatever units are appropriate) What you mention here, I have thought of as a way of formatting a calculation. I.E. changing the format on a datetime field to o…

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