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Overview

Starting with Version 6.4 of the Advanced Tables for Confluence add-on, it is possible to specify the format that is used to view date columns. The actual data is not changed, just how it is displayed. This helps to keep the data looking consistent even if the provided data is not. This can be enabled by using the M column type for the Column Types parameter corresponding to the column. Advanced Date Sorting specifies how to use the M column type to customize how the column data is interpreted as a data. With an additional specification, the format of how the date should appear when viewed.

Two date formats are needed to support both interpreting the data and formatting the output. 

  1. Input format - this is first format specified on the M column type, although it is usually defaulted when nothing is specified. See Advanced Date Sorting for more details.

  2. Display format - this is how you want the date to be displayed and sorted. If not specified, the column displays as is. The display format is similar but, necessarily, more complex than the input format. It is summarized below. The ~ character is used to separated the input and display formats to avoid most conflicts with characters used in formats.

Examples

Column type

Input format

Display format

M~YYYY.MM.DD

<default>

YYYY.MM.DD

MDDMMMYYYY~YYYY.MM.DD

DDMMMYYYY

YYYY.MM.DD

M(de)DDMMMYYYY~YYYY.MM.DD

(de)DDMMMYYYY

YYYY.MM.DD

MX~DD.MM.YY

Unix timestamp

DD.MM.YY

MDD MMM YYYY~YYYY.MM.DD

DD MMM YYYY

Default Confluence Date Picker (US)

YYYY.MM.DD

Usage

The Formatting Options listed on this page can be defined through the Column Types parameter within the following Macros:

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Acknowledgement

Advanced date sorting support with the M column type is provided using javascript implemented by the

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Table Library for Bob Swift Add-ons with the help of the Moment.js library (open source, MIT license). A summary of the relevant parts of the moment.js documentation is repeated here.


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Token

Output

Month

M

1 2 ... 11 12

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Mo

1st 2nd ... 11th 12th

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MM

01 02 ... 11 12

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MMM

Jan Feb ... Nov Dec

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MMMM

January February ... November December

Quarter

Q

1 2 3 4

Day of Month

D

1 2 ... 30 31

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Do

1st 2nd ... 30th 31st

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DD

01 02 ... 30 31

Day of Year

DDD

1 2 ... 364 365

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DDDo

1st 2nd ... 364th 365th

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DDDD

001 002 ... 364 365

Day of Week

d

0 1 ... 5 6

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do

0th 1st ... 5th 6th

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dd

Su Mo ... Fr Sa

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ddd

Sun Mon ... Fri Sat

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dddd

Sunday Monday ... Friday Saturday

Day of Week (Locale)

e

0 1 ... 5 6

Day of Week (ISO)

E

1 2 ... 6 7

Week of Year

w

1 2 ... 52 53

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wo

1st 2nd ... 52nd 53rd

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ww

01 02 ... 52 53

Week of Year (ISO)

W

1 2 ... 52 53

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Wo

1st 2nd ... 52nd 53rd

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WW

01 02 ... 52 53

Year

YY

70 71 ... 29 30

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YYYY

1970 1971 ... 2029 2030

Week Year

gg

70 71 ... 29 30

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gggg

1970 1971 ... 2029 2030

Week Year (ISO)

GG

70 71 ... 29 30

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GGGG

1970 1971 ... 2029 2030

AM/PM

A

AM PM

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a

am pm

Hour

H

0 1 ... 22 23

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HH

00 01 ... 22 23

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h

1 2 ... 11 12

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hh

01 02 ... 11 12

Minute

m

0 1 ... 58 59

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mm

00 01 ... 58 59

Second

s

0 1 ... 58 59

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ss

00 01 ... 58 59

Fractional Second

S

0 1 ... 8 9

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SS

0 1 ... 98 99

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SSS

0 1 ... 998 999

Timezone

z or zz

EST CST ... MST PST 
Note: as of 1.6.0, the z/zz format tokens have been deprecated. Read more about it here.

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Z

-07:00 -06:00 ... +06:00 +07:00

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ZZ

-0700 -0600 ... +0600 +0700

Unix Timestamp

X

1360013296


Internationalization

See language support (i18n).

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