"Editing" a Journal entry is slightly less intuitive than 'editing' other documents you may have done before. Actually, you
can edit the journal description/text part just about any way you want in the Journal Tool. However, it seems that WC "sees" 'viewing' of a particular
entry as cause to re-publish that entry in the XML file.
For example;
In the Journal window, I double-click some
current journal item to copy the description so it can be pasted into a new entry. I now create that
new entry the normal way, WC supplies the date/time and I paste in the copied description and change it as appropriate. Click the Close button. Wait for the new data to be uploaded and view it on my site. There's my new entry, in all its glory!
However, I now notice that the Journal that I had double-clicked, in order to copy the text, now shows the date/time info the way WC wants; 1) No comma between the date and time, 2) a 24 hour time with the redundant "AM" or "PM". Even though I had not "
edited" anything in the older journal entry, I believe WC notes my viewing/opening of it by setting a "change" flag for that entry. Not really a bug, after all,
Stu has provided a perfectly capable method of adding journal entries and has even created a method of inserting the time automagically! This is simply how it's designed.
Plus, I am probably one of only
two clowns who actually want the date/time format a little different!
Therefore, the only people who will see this behavior are me and that one other user.
I am not asking for any changes, I will simply create new entries by directly editing the journal.xml file. It's faster than using the Journal tool and then correcting the date/time settings in any of the entries WC patiently and obediently tries to return to the "proper" format! [removed link to the now castly photobucket.com site]