• 12-hour time -- A time in the format [hh:mm:ss] followed by the letters AM or PM. The hours can range from 00 to 12. The seconds are optional and default to 00.
• 24-hour time -- A time in the format [hh:mm:ss]. The hours can range from 00 to 23. The seconds are optional and default to 00.
• Date -- A date in the operating system's default date format. Some examples include:

  Region	Default date format	Entering "[01/02/03]" results in
  United States	'[mm/dd/yyyy]	January 2, 2003
  France	'[dd/mm/yyyy]	February 1, 2003
  Japan	'[yyyy/mm/dd]	February 3, 2001

  The year (yyyy) is optional and defaults to the current year. If you use yy to specify a year, in the 20th century, yy is 50 or greater and in the 21st century, yy is less than 50. The validity of a date format depends on the date separator that users choose in their operating system control panel. The default separator for Windows, UNIX, and Macintosh is a slash (/). The default separator for OS/2 is a hyphen (­).
• Time and date -- A time and a date in the format [time date] or [date time].

The table below shows the formats you can use to specify a date in a Notes field, assuming the operating system's default date format is US English and the year is 2002.

Tip Display Time must be selected in the Date/Time field properties box for the time to display. It is not selected by default.

Time-date format	Constant	Date/Time field result	Text field result
24-hour time	[5:30]	05:30 AM	05:30:00 AM
12-hour time	[5:30 PM]	05:30 PM	05:30:00 PM
24-hour time	[17:30]	05:30 PM	05:30:00 PM
Date	[6/15]	06/15/2002	06/15/2002
Date	[6/15/02]	06/15/2002	06/15/2002
Time-date	[6/15 5:30 PM]	06/15/2002 05:30 PM	06/15/2002 05:30:00 PM
Time-date	[5:30 PM 6/15]	06/15/2002 05:30 PM	06/15/2002 05:30:00 PM
Difference	[5:30 PM]-[5:30]	43200.00	43200