Date format on form submit

After setting up the date formats with the developer toolbox, the help instructs you to insert KT_formatDate($row_rsRecordset['name_emp']) into your pages. This works great for displaying data, however I can't find what to do to fix the date format upon submitting a form. I am using the Insert Record server behavior and assume the KT_formatDate needs to be added there, but no matter where I put it it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?

Hi Megan,
ADDT provides a variety of so-called "dynamic data" placeholders which can be used when inserting/updating records. In your case the placeholders in question are...
{NOW} for MySQL date columns
{NOW_DT} for MysQL datetime columns
Cheers,
Günter Schenk
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver

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