XML Forms & Document Lifetime question?

Hi All
I am creating an xml form and want to use the 'ValidTo' property for document lifetime. I have created the browser and can get the date picker, however the 'ValidTo' requires date and time.
How on the xml for can you user a dateTime Picker or is there another way to do this?
Thanks for your help!

Hi Phil,
If the time is not required, you can specify a default time. See http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/b4/fd2c407586ea01e10000000a155106/frameset.htm for more details.
Unfortunatelly, a comfortable time picker is not available which means that a user needs to enter the time manually if not the default time should be taken.
Kind regards,
Roland

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