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I have an XML form we use to create News. When the content manager creates the News item, they provide Valid From and Valid Until timestamps for the News item's lifetime. For the time, they must use military time format (00:00:00 - 23:00:00) because if they input 03:00:00 PM, in the system it will display 03:00:00 AM.
We are fine using military time... the content managers have now been trained to do this. However, when they edit an existing News item, the edit form will not display the time in military time anymore. So, for example, if the content manager originally set the Valid Until time to 15:00:00, when they edit the News item, 03:00:00 PM will display instead, and then will save it with the incorrect time (03:00:00 military time) after the change.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? I'm not sure where the trouble lies... on the XML form side? In the configuration of the KM metadata? On the server? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Fallon

Hi Fallow, did you resolve the problem?
Can you reply the solution?
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