Google Apps Script on Form Submit Time Formatting Glitch/Fix

Question

Background:

How: I suspect that this is a glitch within Google Form (submission process)/Spreadsheet, but may be part of the Date conversio

Answer 1

If you remove the ' in the spreadsheet cell the spreadsheet interface will convert this entry to a date object.

This might (or not) be an issue for you so maybe you should handle this when you read back your data for another use... It doesn't happen when text is different (for example with P.M) simply because in this case the ' is not necessary for the spreadsheet to keep it as a string since the spreadsheet can't convert it to a date object (time value).

Artificial intelligence has its bad sides ;-)

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edit : You cant do this in an onFormSubmit triggered function using the javascript substring() you mentioned. If you're not familiar with that, here is the way to go :

To run a script when a particular action is performed:

1. Open or a create a new Spreadsheet.
2. Click the Unsaved Spreadsheet dialog box and change the name.
3. Choose Tools > Script Editor and write the function you want to run.
4. Choose Resources > Current project's triggers. You see a panel with the message No triggers set up. Click here to add one now.
5. Click the link.
6. Under Run, select the function you want executed by the trigger.
7. Under Events, select From Spreadsheet.
8. From the next drop-down list, select On open, On edit, or On form submit.
9. Click Save.

see doc here and here

Answer 2

How can I go about processing that value into 4:15 pm? A simple java function could be

value = value.substring(1); // Assuming "value" is a String But in Google App Scripts for Spreadsheets, I don't know how I would do that.

Google Apps Scripts uses Javascript which has the exact same method.

value = value.substring(1);

should return all except the first character.

More about Javascript substring at: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_substring.asp