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6 <h1>Entry time stamps</h1>
8 <p>This feature can be toggled and configured under <b>Options ->
9 Preferences -> General</b>.</p>
11 <p>JabRef can automatically set a field to contain the date an
12 entry was added to the database.</p>
16 <p>The formatting of the time stamp is
17 determined by a string containing designator words that
18 indicate the position of the various parts of the date.</p>
20 <p>These are some of the available designator letters (examples
21 are given in parentheses for Wednesday 14th of September 2005
25 <li><b>yy</b>: year (05)</li>
27 <li><b>yyyy</b>: year (2005)</li>
29 <li><b>MM</b>: month (09)</li>
31 <li><b>dd</b>: day in month (14)</li>
33 <li><b>HH</b>: hour in day (17)</li>
35 <li><b>mm</b>: minute in hour (45)</li>
36 </ul>These designators can be combined along with punctuation
37 and whitespace. A couple of examples:
40 <li><b>yyyy.MM.dd</b> gives <b>2005.09.14</b></li>
42 <li><b>yy.MM.dd</b> gives <b>05.09.14</b></li>
44 <li><b>yyyy.MM.dd HH:mm</b> gives <b>2005.09.14