Not sure if this is the right forum. What I need is a way to capture the date and the exact time in a field.

Here is what it is for. It is a tardy calc I am trying to build. I have a field with a value list and a drop down box. The user can choose between 1st - 7th period. Then there is another box that the date and the exact time needs to be put in. Can this be done automatically? In other words the user clicks on the field titled "Date/Time" and the date and the exact time is inputted in the field. Then I need that field saved forever. Because that same student could come back tardy again but on a different period. So I would need to be able to use that "Date/Time" field again.Hope this makes sense. Please advise.

You can set a field to auto-enter creation date/time/timestamp.