•A timestamp field always includes a date and a time of day. You must specify formats for both date and time components to change the format of a timestamp. See Specifying formats for timestamp fields.

•The separators in time fields and the order in which the time parts appear depend on the system formats set for the file and the display format for the field. To change the display format for a field (for example, 11:09 PM or 23:09), set options in the Inspector in Layout mode. See Specifying formats for timestamp fields.

•FileMaker Pro stores timestamps as the number of seconds since midnight on January 1, 0001. Therefore you can calculate timestamps before or after a given timestamp by subtracting or adding a number of seconds. For example, in a calculation field whose result is a timestamp, the following formula calculates the timestamp one day (60 seconds to a minute * 60 minutes to a hour * 24 hours to a day = 86400 seconds) after the value in a timestamp field named TimestampStarted:

•The minimum and maximum values of a timestamp are 1/1/0001 12:00 AM and 12/31/4000 11:59:59.999999 PM.

•To specify how data in a timestamp field displays (for example, to specify whether the value shows the day of the week or “AM” and “PM”), see Formatting and setting up field objects in Layout mode.