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yuryg

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Dec 2, 2009, 1:13:23 PM12/2/09
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Is it possible to be able to add something that the system/android
will automatically produce a time stamp in the notepad document.

I use the docs/with the gdocs to keep logs of various work and
personal related activities the time stamp would help save a lot of
typing.

Rick Anderson

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Dec 2, 2009, 1:39:41 PM12/2/09
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That's a great idea!  I do the same thing and it would be great to have something like that.  The difficult part may be determining how.  In other words, what date format and time format and should there be date and not time or time and not date.

For example, growing up in the computer age - I've learned to type my date year-month-day in order to ease sorting which has now become a habit of 2009-12-02: blah, blah, blah, whatever information I want to save.  I believe that's February 12th for Europeans, but that's December 2nd for me.

Of course, time would have standard time and military time displays.

Art - what do you think?  Could there be a menu function (currently revert and save) to add date and time that is precedented with a format option in the setup of the application?

Thanks,
Rick

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Darin McGrew

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Dec 2, 2009, 2:08:11 PM12/2/09
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This is one of the features I miss from PalmOS. Graffiti had a
shortcut character that could be combined with other characters to
create shortcuts that saved typing. Among the default shortcuts were
timestamp/datestamp shortcuts:
[shortcut]ds = datestamp
[shortcut]ts = timestamp
[shortcut]dts = date and timestamp

And FWIW, I prefer the YYYY-MM-DD format too, although YYYY/MM/DD is
as close as I can get with Android's date format setting.

Darin
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Art Wild

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Dec 2, 2009, 4:52:14 PM12/2/09
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I say, not a big deal. YYYY-MM-DD should work fine.
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