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Unmodified standard (view/edit) form datacard for DateOnly CDS field shows time as well

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Thank you for your consideration.

As a preparation for a PowerApps workshop, I (re)did the current "App in a Day lab" excercises.
http://aka.ms/appinaday
In lesson 2
PAHandsOnLabContent\02-Common Data Service for Apps Lab Manual.pdf

I noticed that the default, standard, unmodified, Display Form for a CDS DateOnly field still shows a time as well, and the data type seems to DateTime.
The result looks like this, including a time:

As far as I understand, according to the course pdf, I should be getting a pure date field instead:

The field is set up as DateOnly

The used display form is, as mentioned, unmodified, with data cards still locked

Session ID: 279a5d39-9033-46ce-9d22-290657c53648
PowerApps 3.19042.26

My question:

How do I get the Data Card for Request Date to only show the Date?
In particular: Do I have to unlock the data card to deviate from the default to show only the date for a DateOnly field?

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iAm_ManCat 18,256 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @SaWu

If you unlock the Label for the date (DataCardValue25 in this case) and change its value to:

Text( DateTimeValue(Parent.Default), "[$-en-US]dd/mm/yyyy")

..Then it will display only the date

PowerApps Date fields on forms are a DateTime Value as indicated by your screenshot:

Cheers,

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Hi @iAm_ManCat

Thanks for solution in the sense that it gives me what I want.
It appears strange to me though, that the default (locked) DataCard settings for DateOnly fields, confusingly for me, show a time as well.

Thanks,
Sa.
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You're welcome, glad to help

.. And yes, the CDS entity is called DateOnly (even though this is likely a date with a 12:00 time that is set to only display the date), so it's an ambiguous case in that PowerApps uses a DateTimeValue to present it.

Happy to help out if you have any further issues with this kind of thing going forward - just raise a new request and either I or one of the others on the forum will be able to help