time format

Hi Tonia,

What program do you have- Adobe Acrobat Standard, Professional, Reader, and what version?

If you have Acrobat Stnd or Pro you can double click on the field where the time is entered which will bring up the Properties dialog. Under the Format tab you can choose Time for the Category then select Custom in the list of options below that. Type H:MM in the text entry field under that. The default is AM unless you add in a value greater than 12 ( as in military time 15:00 is 3 PM).

As far as learning more about Acrobat you are pretty much at a good place now ( this web site). In the top menu there is the Learning Center where you will find heaps of videos and tutorials on a vast array of Acrobat topics.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.pdfscripting.com
www.windjack.com

Time formats are covered by International and locale (country) standards. The international standard is 24 hours form 00:00:00 to 23:59;59 and no antemeridian (am - before noon) or postmeridan (pm after noon) indicator, The locale US standard is the 12 hour format with the meridian indicator and time of day is from 12:00:00 am to 11:59:59 am for times before Noon and 12:00:00 pm to 11:59:59 pm for times from Noon to the end of the day.

In LiveCycle, the "H" is for the 24 hour formats with a leading zero and "h" is for the 12 hour formats without a leading zero. You can use "hh" for 12 hour formats with a leading zero.

For the US locale showing only hours and minutes you can use the following format:

time{h:MM A}

I am using Adobe Live Cycle Designer

XFA-FormCalc is the syntax documentation for XML form. For the time formats see the section about Time Formats

XML Forms Architecture (XFA) Specification page 1131 for Time Pictures.