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Date and time fields

Date and time fields - Airtable Tutorial

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Date and time fields

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- It's easy to keep track of dates and times in Airtable, because both of them are combined into a single field type, called date. So let's create a new date field. Let's switch over to our Schedule of Events table, because we want to keep track of the start time and end time for each session. We'll click on the plus sign to create a new field and we'll call it Start Time, and then we will choose Date. Airtable gives us a few different formatting options for our date, we'll stick with local, and we do want to include a time field, so we'll enable this option. Airtable lets us choose whether we want to use Standard Time or 24 hour Military Time. And this next option says, use the same time zone, GMT, for all collaborators. This option is very important because it involves time zones and Airtable handles time zones in a strange way. Airtable can tell which time zone we're currently logged in from, and if we leave this…

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