ISO FileMaker Magazine

Whether you're new to developing in FileMaker or have been using it for a while, unless you’re already familiar with standard timestamp formats and have experience working with external systems, there are several important things to understand about using dates, times, and timestamps within FileMaker — especially when integrating with other systems and APIs.

In this part of our series, we’ll explore a helpful suite of custom functions which serves as a solid foundation for nearly anything related to dates and times in FileMaker. By storing these functions within our Launcher tool, we can easily copy and paste them into any other solution we build.