formatDate
Formats a date as a character string.
formatDate
(
date
,
format
[,
timeZone
])
Parameters
date
The date to convert.
format
The character string describing the format to use.
The characters used to format the different parts of
the date are the following:
- Y - Year
- M - Month of the year (1-12)
- B - Month name
- D - Day of the month (1-31)
- A - Day name
- J - Day of the year (1-366)
- W - Week of the year
- H - Hour (0-23)
- I - Hour (1-12)
- N - Minutes (0-59)
- S - Seconds (0-59)
- P - AM/PM
You can specify a number in front of certain of these characters.
The A and B characters can be followed by a l to use the full name rather than the shortened version or a i to use the name in English.
Examples:
- "%4Y/%2M/%2D" => 2000/01/24.
- "%A %D %B %4Y" => mon 24 jan 2000.
- "%Al %D %Bl %4Y" => monday 24 january 2000.
- "%02H:%02N:%02S" displays the hour, minutes and seconds to two figures.
timeZone
String of characters corresponding to the timezone.
Possible values are specified in the
xtk:common:timezone enumeration schema.
Return value
A character string representing the date in the
requested format.
Features
Available in:
- Content management
- Delivery properties
- Delivery message
- Typology rule
- Import
- JSSP
- SOAP Method
- WebApp
- Workflow