5 Other Ways To Easily Insert Timestamps When Documenting Complaints
Besides the F5 and .LOG trick for Notepad, commenters shared some of their personal favorite ways to input date and time in a system you're using to keep a log of your customer service issue.
- Linux/Mac command line: echo `date` Your Text Here >> log.txt
- Excel: select a cell and press CTRL+; then SPACE then CTRL+SHIFT+;
- Metapad : F6
- Viatalk: dial *99 and the number you want to call and the VoIP will record the conversation, and email it to you, timestamped
- Send an email to yourself.
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EXCEL: CTRL+, SPACE, CTRL+SHIFT+ = 7 key strokes
7/19/07 = 7 key strokes
So?
If you've just spent 30 minutes on hold ("your call is so important to us that we're too cheap to hire more minimum wage CSRs in Asia"), can't you just type in the frigging date yourself? It's not like we use Roman numerals or the years of reign of the current Paraoh.
Yeah, in 30 minutes, you could just write an emacs or vi script to insert the date and time, and forget to save it for next time...
The first command works in Windows as well:
echo %date% Your Text Here >> log.txt
CTRL+M in Google Docs works great for me...
Ultraedit: F7 inserts the date:time
An easier excel shortcut is CTRL+SHIFT+'
That automatically adds both date and time.
I prefer timestamps compatible with filenames, that will also sort correctly.
in bash:
echo `date '+%m-%d-%y_%H-%M-%S'`
You could also just type the date and time into your document. I mean, it's not as though using some special key sequence makes it more official.
Notepad++ :Ctrl+F5