# Improved Date field functionality

**URL:** <https://community.noloco.io/t/improved-date-field-functionality/1675>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [February 4, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/improved-date-field-functionality/1675 "2025-02-04T17:34:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![laurak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@laurak](https://community.noloco.io/u/laurak)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/improved-date-field-functionality/1675/1 "2025-02-04T17:34:53Z")

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Several requests to improve the functionality and use of Date fields, particularly for those using Noloco Tables:

- Ability to set a specific time zone for a date field in Noloco Tables. My team is spread out across timezones, which is challenging because the time on a Date/Time field doesn’t adjust.
- Scheduled workflows. Ability to run workflows at set frequencies or based on relative date fields.
- Functionality of TODAY() or NOW() in formulas in Noloco Tables. These don’t currently work correctly and sometimes spit out dates in the future or the past. I had hoped to use this as a way to overcome the lack of support for scheduled workflows.
- Ability to write conditional formulas in Noloco Tables where the output can be formatted as a date. Currently, any IF THEN formula cannot be formatted as a date.
- Ability to select a date field as a Primary Field in a Noloco Table

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**Author:** ![darragh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/darragh/32/12_2.png) [@darragh](https://community.noloco.io/u/darragh)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 7:12am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/improved-date-field-functionality/1675/2 "2025-02-05T07:12:57Z")

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> [@laurak](#):
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> Ability to write conditional formulas in Noloco Tables where the output can be formatted as a date. Currently, any IF THEN formula cannot be formatted as a date.

Thanks for the feedback @laurak

For this specific point, you just need to wrap your output in `TODATE()` and it will be a date field again

It’s explained here in the [Noloco Guides](https://guides.noloco.io/data/collections/formulas#:~:text=date%20%2D%202-,TODATE,TODATE(date),-DATE)