Hi Garret,

Why cannot you just use $entry time ?  It uses the date that the entry was made which appears as the first line of every elog entry -

[Sorry for mis-post, just discovered cannot put the 'dollar at' control set in an entry]

MID: 12458
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:22:06 +0100
In reply to: 12453
 

You can use 'Time format = ' to get the date to display in the format you like.  You will see I have posted an issue about 'Date format = '.  I mention this because in trying to understand what was happening, I too had a case where all the dates were showing as the same in a thread.  I suspect your 12/31/1969 was due to the entries as being read were non-existant or blank.

Of course I may have mis-understood your requirements.

 Tried using the Time format setting, however I only want the time to be selected, so when i enter the datetime type it shows the date and time.

If there was a way to just have the time to be drop down menus vs the date and time all together, I would find that helpful.

As for the "$entry time" suggestion, it only serves to log the exact time the entry was made into elog. Where as I want it to be manually set.

In this example we've created an sql script to pull information from an oracle database, which then creates an elog entry.

We have multiple fields which are populated and locked so only admin can edit them.

Our contractor then edits the entry with a date / time / location, and a few other things.

the Date and Time are separate attributes. We'd prefer to keep it like that just because of the other scripts that run on the elog entries, (pulls day by day reports and formats and calculates summaries in excel automatically).

Any other suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks for your reply.

 Hi Andreas, thank you for your reply. I have already found out that the problem on Mac was that I moved the cfg file to some other folder which did not contain the resources and scripts. I used the "-s" switch and now it works nicely. However, now I try to do the same thing on Windows and even the "-s" switch does not help (the default encodings etc. are set in the cfg file). I compiled the elog on Mac, but I used the installation package on Windows.

> I upgraded my system, including the version of Firefox.
> [...]
> Sorry this is a bit rambling, but its very hard to describe!

A picture can say more than thousand words.
Can you reproduce this with a simple configuration?
If yes, can you attach the configuration, the *a.log files,
a description of what firefox version you're using and please:
some screenshots of "before" and "after"?

Thanks!
Andreas

> > I upgraded my system, including the version of Firefox.
> > [...]
> > Sorry this is a bit rambling, but its very hard to describe!
> 
> A picture can say more than thousand words.
> Can you reproduce this with a simple configuration?
> If yes, can you attach the configuration, the *a.log files,
> a description of what firefox version you're using and please:
> some screenshots of "before" and "after"?
> 
> Thanks!
> Andreas
That's odd, I cannot reproduce the problem today - except on the topic [logbook] it already exists on.
Yet nothing has changed.  
I've looked for hidden files, hidden control codes in the *a.log files...  this one had better be put on the
back burner until I can find a way to reproduce it (!).

 Nope.