formatDate

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Last updated: Oct 11, 2024 by Shane Smith
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Description

Formats the given date into a date/time string accordingly to the given format expression.

Parameters

Return Type

String

The return value represents the formatted string representation for the given date.

Examples

Example 1

string format = "yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z"; print("Current time is " + formatDate(currentDate(), format));

Assuming that current date is 30.10.2011 and time 12:08, prints Today is 2011.10.30 AD at 12:08:00 PDT

Example 2

date varDateTime = "2011 -08 -17 T18: 30: 55"; string format = "EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"; print ("Formatted date is" + formatDate(varDateTime,format));

Print Formatted date is Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:30:55 +0300

For a full set of date formats that can be used, check out the SimpleDateFormat documentation from Oracle.

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