# Removing extra info from date **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [June 23, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-extra-info-from-date/42008 "2018-06-23T23:44:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![youngsimba23](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@youngsimba23](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/youngsimba23)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-extra-info-from-date/42008/1 "2018-06-23T23:44:19Z")
So I like to have my Year formatted YYYY-MM-DD. When you get an album from itunes it also includes the time and it looks like YYYY-MM-DDT07:00:00Z. I used an action to get rid of the time after after the date, but it's pretty slow (all my other actions run pretty quick) and I couldn't figure out how to delete any time and not just the time I put in (for example the one above is 07:00:00, and usually it's 7 or 8 but I'd rather just have one all encompassing expression). Here's the expression I used: Guess Values Source Format: %year% Guessing Pattern: %year%T07:00:00Z and then the same thing but with the guessing pattern time as 8 If anyone can help me find a better action I'd really appreciate your help. ---
**Author:** ![ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ryerman/32/5285_2.png) [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 2:01am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-extra-info-from-date/42008/2 "2018-06-24T02:01:38Z")
Guessing Pattern: %year%T%dummy% ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-extra-info-from-date/42008/3 "2018-06-24T11:58:44Z")
> [@youngsimba23](#): > > So I like to have my Year formatted YYYY-MM-DD. When you get an album from itunes it also includes the time and it looks like YYYY-MM-DDT07:00:00Z. Please note that YEAR only expects 4 digits. So using a non-standard data format could lead to incompatibilies. The long data including time looks like data from the field RELEASETIME to me. Concatenating RELEASETIME to just a day without the time would render the data format invalid for that field. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/removing-extra-info-from-date/42008/4 "2026-02-09T12:27:29Z")