Title: Using ACF time field
Last modified: September 1, 2026

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# Using ACF time field

 *  [philbee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philbee/)
 * (@philbee)
 * [4 days, 4 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-acf-time-field/)
 * Congrats on V5 of this brilliant plugin shipping!
   I’ve been trying to create 
   an AQL that uses ACF time fields (formatted as H:m:i) for comparisons (displaying
   a current event), but so far had little success. Do I need to use strtotime in
   aql_query_vars filters in PHP, or is there a way to build this in the UI (where
   there is an Meta type “Time” available)?Thanks!

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