At 08:59 AM 9/20/99 +0100, Caolan McNamara wrote: >On 19-Sep-99 Justin Bradford wrote: >>4. Fields >> >> Expand time to time/date, with multiple formats? >> ie. time: 12:MM:SS AM/PM, 24:MM:SS (optional seconds, too?) >> date: MM/DD/YY(YY); DD/MM/YY(YY); Sep(tember) 19, 1999; 19 Sep 1999 >> where either time, date, or both are selected for display. >> >> Should the time/date be optionally stored, rather than just the current >> time/date. That combined with an option in dialog (and right click menu) >> to update to current time/date might be useful (as a simple timestamp). > >What word does is like so, in the text stream you have... >0x19 field starts >the field code goes here >0x20 field middle >the last known field text goes here >0x21 field ends > >This way you can optionally update a document to the new values that >should be in the field, or continue using the last unupdated values, >i.e. edit a document and leave the update time alone, and so forth. That sounds cool. I suspect it wouldn't be too much work to add code to the field tag which does the same thing. Could we just add a LAST= attribute to the tag in our file format? Actually, for i18n reasons, we may want to change that tag into a container instead, but I'll defer to Jeff there. :-) Paul
