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Date and time format problem
The date and time are not formated like in metadata
the result is :
The metadata settings are date format and time format, not format date and format time.
https://docassemble.org/docs/initial.html#date%20format
A datatype: time field defines a datetime.time object. https://docassemble.org/docs/fields.html#time
Thus when the object is reduced to text, the textual representation depends on the datetime package, which doesn't know anything about docassemble or docassemble's metadata settings.
The metadata setting time format is used when format_time() is called without a format parameter.
metadata:
date format: dd.MM.YYYY
time format: HH.mm
---
question: |
Date and time
fields:
- Date: example_date
datatype: date
- Time: example_time
datatype: time
---
mandatory: True
question: |
Text representation
subquestion: |
Date: ${ example_date }
Time: ${ format_time(example_time) }
Closing due to lack of activity.