Adding date field
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The stock Date fields are essentially for form fills, as in Credit Cards, where only Year / Month are typically required.
You can create a new field, just simple text, and enter your date value there. Since nothing is going to interpret that date (except you), its free-form and doesn't need to be in a "typed" field.
There is another internal date field format, but that is not directly useable or useful for your needs (it is used for birthdays, etc., and is store as a large numeric value).
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Hi @rojaan,
We don't have a way to add a custom field of the date type I'm afraid. I know we've improved on data types in the beta but date isn't one of them. It could be because there simply hasn't been a demand. I can't remember hearing of such a request until now. That isn't to say it invalidates your request, merely it might be you're the first to express an interest.
As for existing date fields, it all depends on the category. For Software License items the date field is DD/MM/YYYY as is birth date in Identity items and so on. We do use MM/YYYY in Credit Card items because it's extremely rare to find one that specifies a day in the expiry date. I would have said none do until a user said that there is one US bank that does this. Unfortunately I can't remember which bank and whether they round up to the end or down to the start of the month when dealing with websites etc. as every site I've ever used only asks for a month and year in terms of expiry.
For the default fields, where do we use MM/YYYY where typically we should be using DD/MM/YYYY? if it's common to use days and we're not we'd certainly like to correct that. I can place a feature request for a dates type for custom fields although I'm not sure if that would hold an advantage over a text field. This is where you can help, if I understand why this would make 1Password better it's easier for me convince others which ultimately is how it works. If I go to the devs and say 1Password needs x and they ask why (pretty reasonable question) my job is to convince them. If it isn't a personal desire of mine I need to know why it is for you so I don't do your request a disservice.
Does any of that make sense? Please do let us know your thoughts.
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Thank you MrC. I noticed back in Sep 2013 you requested the same thing, the last response from MikeT of AgileBits was:
MrC's wish in our system right now, so hopefully, we'll get it to it as soon as we can.
I guess it didn't happen then, or was the request for something else?
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The reason I requested this was that my Priority Pass membership which I have created in under Memberships has a dd/mm/yyyy as an expert date.
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If I recall correctly (and for me, that now seems like a lifetime ago), the request was about the anomalous Citibank credit cards, that insist on including a day number in their expiration date.
In practice, it turns out to be rarely necessary to use online, never for form fills (that I've found), and so I just include the full expiration date as a custom field as I suggest above. This is useful when talking to ears on the phone.
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Hi littlebobbytables, I'm not that I can make a good case to justify adding a custom dd/mm/yyyyy field over using a text field other than the fact that it would be a nice to have, would make 1Password an even better product and it would cheer me up:). I clearly wouldn't make a good politician....
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Now to be fair @rojaan, being a 'good' politician would in reality mean a lot of very unsavoury character traits given everything I've observed from the news of the last x years. So consider that one a positive :wink:
I don't own a lot of memberships so I don't make extensive use of that category. If you're saying cards can have days in the expiry date I can at least make that argument :smile: Maybe I'll ask what the technical and UI difficulties are in showing DD/MM/YYYY when editing and only displaying MM/YYYY if that's all the user entered. That should potentially keep it relatively simple but cover both I would think?
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That would be fine thank you:) I guess at the end of the day Politicians are only human and to err is human after all...
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In that case we've got some very human politicians here in the UK :wink:
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Now that I've had a bit of time to investigate properly @rojaan I see that 1Password 5 for iOS currently supports custom fields of type date for both the DD/MM/YYYY and MM/YYYY formats. A full date field synced from an iOS device will behave like a standard date field (it brings up a calendar when editing) but the Mac doesn't understand the MM/YYYY one (although it does sync).
What I can't say is when the Mac version will be slated to catch up but it should be a matter of time rather than if. Obviously having a difference here can't last as otherwise it will cause confusion and/or annoyance.
ref: OPM-86
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Thank you for this. I did update my membership card on my iPhone. The strange thing is that on my Mac it converted dd/mm/yyyyy to dd mmm yyyyy which is not ideal. It does look okay on my iPhone though. Hopefully 1Password will update the Mac OS X version to bring it into line with iOS.
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Hi @rojaan,
When you say converted do you mean turning say 01/01/2015 in 01 Jan 2015? If you do that's controllable from System Preferences > Languages & Regions. Click on the Advanced... button and then change to the Dates tab. The one you would want to adjust is the medium one so we're using a system default here. If you were to change that to match the short format it would be as you want but it will change it everywhere for all programs.
That might be changing it in too many places and maybe you just want to see us using the short format going forward, let us know what you think.
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Not wanting to sound too picky but I would prefer not to have to change my default date formats. Sorry:(
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Hi @rojaan,
1Password for Mac uses the system date formats. We don't want to manually specify a date format since we're then guaranteed to get it wrong for some people. The date should look the same in 1Password as it does in other places on the system. If you'd like it to look different in 1Password, you should change your system preference.
Rick
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Fine. But the fact remains that the iOS app does not tie up with the Mac OS x version in so far that you cannot specify a dd/mm/yyyy date on the Mac version but you can under iOS which is slightly inconsistent. The fact that you have chosen to adopt the systems preferences on how a field is displayed on the Mac is not the main issue. Roger
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Hi @rojaan ,
Thanks so much for the feedback here. As has been mentioned above, we are considering a date type for custom fields in 1Password for Mac. We'd love to have 100% feature parity across all platforms that we offer 1Password on, but because each platform is (necessarily) developed separately, there will always be a few features that appear first on one platform and are then added across the others. I'll be sure to let our developers know that you'd love to have this feature on Mac too. :)
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