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Date

Need to ask for date of birth, add an appointment scheduler, or test your respondents’ knowledge about historical days? You can do all that with the Date question!

  1. To add a Date question, open an existing form, or start a new one. Then click + Add question to open the question type menu.
  2. Select Date.

Date Formats

Formware offers the 3 most common date formats used worldwide:

  • Month-Day-Year
  • Year-Month-Day
  • Day-Month-Year

Select your preferred format from the dropdown menu in the Config tab of the relevant question. You can specify the date format you want to use, and the separator character between days, months, and years. For instance, here's a date question that uses the MMDDYYYY ordering and the slash separator character:

Date format
Date format

No matter which date format you choose, respondents must provide a valid 4-digit year when answering the question (for example, 2025 instead of 25).