# Time Picker without a Date

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/time-picker-without-a-date/52507>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [October 29, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/time-picker-without-a-date/52507 "2021-10-29T16:28:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![rrebro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3da27b/32.png) [@rrebro](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rrebro)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/time-picker-without-a-date/52507/1 "2021-10-29T16:28:34Z")

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I am looking for the best way to implement a Time Picker without a Data involved. I have heard of using a spinner but this is for a touchscreen and spinner don’t really work well considering their small buttons.

I could use a formatted text field but its really cumbersome to expect the operator to have to enter in the perfectly formatted string.

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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/time-picker-without-a-date/52507/2 "2021-10-29T16:39:45Z")

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You could always make a custom template that does it. Perhaps something with 3multiple numeric text boxes with `:` in between them denoting time, and setting limits that make sense for the hours/minutes/seconds (12 or 24, 60, 60), and a dropdown for AM/PM if you’re not doing military time, to make sure that a valid date is inputted by the operator. Then you can use this all over your project. Make a template output parameter that you write the time selected by the user to.