Date fields in Vernon CMS accept a wide variety of formats.
Shortcut keys
You can enter the letter 't' into any date field and it will automatically fill in today's date.
You can enter the letter 'y' and it will fill in yesterday's date.
Future dates
Date fields do not allow future dates, with a few exceptions such as Rights Expiry Date.
Keywords and partial dates
Most Date fields will accept keywords and partial dates as well as full dates.
For example:
•1982?
•1975 {thought to be}
•Pre 1920
•Late 2010
•Post 1450
•Mid 1988
•Circa 1950
•May 1972?
•1960s
•21st Century
•Unknown
•Early 17th Century
•200 BC
•250 BCE
•21/05/2017
•1980-1990
•2000...today
•21 Jan 87...31 Jan 87
•2015 to 2017
•2008 til today
•1870 until 1930
•By 1960
•From 1975
Precise dates
Some Date fields only accept precise dates and must include a day, month, and year.
Dates that require day, month, and year can be entered as:
•21/05/2017
•21.05.2017
•21 May 2017
•2017.05.21
•2017 May 21
•May 21 2017
Time and Duration
Time and Duration fields only accept numbers in the format of a time duration (e.g. hours:mins:seconds) or a timecode (e.g. hours:mins:seconds:frame).
For example:
•05:22:11
•05:22:11:14
Date Time fields
Date Time fields require the date and time in a specific format: DD/MM/YY hh:mm
The date must be followed by a space and then the time.
For example, you could type 1.1.17 14.30 and the system would interpret this as 01 JAN 2017 14:30:00.
You can either use colons (:) or semi-colons (;) to separate the hours, minutes and seconds.
You can use the 24 hour clock format, or the letters "a" and "p" to indicate am or pm. For example, 8:30a would change to 08:30:00. 8:30p would change to 20:30:00.
