change field code capitalization?

[dajjws]

How can I change the field code for time from "PM" to "p.m." and make it stay
that way when the time is updated?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See footnote 2 in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm. Note
that, although the AM and PM boxes have arrows and appear to be dropdown
list boxes, they're not. You have to type in the format you want.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Add a lowercase switch ie

{ Time \@ "hh:mm am/pm" \*lower}

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ah, a better solution. Knew there had to be one! But will it add the
periods?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Something like

{ TIME \@ "hh:mm '{ IF { TIME \@HH } < 12 "a.m." "p.m." }'" }

ought to do it but I wouldn't like to get caught up in the argument about
what you should do for noon and midnight

(all the {} need to be the special field code braces you can enter using
ctrl-F9)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yep. How many people know that M (or m.) = noon?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Those who know Latin?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, right. And those seem to be increasingly few.