# Seconds on Date/Time Submission

**URL:** <https://forums.knack.com/t/seconds-on-date-time-submission/19000>\
**Category:** Get Answers\
**Created:** [March 17, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/seconds-on-date-time-submission/19000 "2025-03-17T20:09:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Justin2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Justin2](https://forums.knack.com/u/Justin2)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/seconds-on-date-time-submission/19000/1 "2025-03-17T20:09:26Z")

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Hello!

I use knack for logging at events with multiple people entering different logs. On submission of a log entry we record the Date/Time Logged, User making the Log and the Log Entry. Is there anyway to show the time as hh:mm:ss and not just hh:mm?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![CarlHolmes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.knack.com/carlholmes/32/2814_2.png) [@CarlHolmes](https://forums.knack.com/u/CarlHolmes)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/seconds-on-date-time-submission/19000/2 "2025-03-17T21:30:03Z")

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Hi @Justin2 - Welcome to the community 🙋‍♂️

I’ve had a play around with this challenge but as Knack doesn’t allow for capturing seconds I can’t obtain a result, even using `formatDate`using a Text Formula.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/knack/original/2X/4/4318ddb01f0c06e7d4b88091ac23b0aa1a285e23.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/knack/original/2X/b/bfc39367d9f7edd3286c2f675c4ddf6b1e5690f6.png)

Hopefully someone else may have a solution 😉

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**Author:** ![Dean2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dean2](https://forums.knack.com/u/Dean2)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/seconds-on-date-time-submission/19000/3 "2025-03-17T22:20:13Z")

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Hi

Could you possibly use the Time field type to capture this information?

Dean

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**Author:** ![Erik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.knack.com/erik/32/982_2.png) [@Erik](https://forums.knack.com/u/Erik)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/seconds-on-date-time-submission/19000/4 "2025-04-04T13:40:03Z")

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If you are a KTL user the \_ts (time stamp ) keyword goes down to milliseconds.  
I’m sure @CarlHolmes or @NormandDefayette_CortexRD can link you to the instructions.

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**Author:** ![CarlHolmes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.knack.com/carlholmes/32/2814_2.png) [@CarlHolmes](https://forums.knack.com/u/CarlHolmes)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/seconds-on-date-time-submission/19000/5 "2025-04-04T17:56:58Z")

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You can read more about the KTL keyword \_ts on [Github](https://github.com/cortexrd/Knack-Toolkit-Library/wiki/Keywords#_tsprefix-prefixstring-format-formatstring)

I’ve done a few videos about KTL

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