Future Request: Custom fields option for date

[Mark_Hudson]

There’s already a thread on this with a vote headstart, if you want to add yours:

DATE - Custom Field Type

What do you think about adding new field type “Date”? I’d like to have “Start Date” and “End Date” for tasks and currently I am using “Text” field for that which does not work well for 2 reasons: Inconsistency - date formats are written differently by team members. 13 April, 13/04, 13 april 2017… Inability to Sort By - text fields are general. That’s why you cannot really “Sort By” those fields. In case of Dates, you could sort tasks by Date. This point actually is linked to first point - cons…