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Date Format

The date format attribute can be used to specify dynamically how the date value of the property should be formatted and validated in modeled dialogs. It is defined by using certain pattern letters (see the table below) and optional separators.

Examples:

A date value can be created by clicking on the choose date button on a modeled input dialog with a date field. The date will be generated with the specified format. If the date format contains time pattern letters (like “h” for hours), the current time will be used for the generated date.

If a user chooses to type the date in manually, the dialog will validate the field with the specified date format. The following table shows all available date format pattern letters (all other characters from “A” to “Z” (lower and upper case) are reserved):

Letter Date or Time Component Presentation Examples
G Era designator Text AD
y Year Year 1996; 96
M Month in year Month July; Jul; 07
w Week in year Number 27
W Week in month Number 2
D Day in year Number 189
d Day in month Number 10
F Day of week in month Number 2
E Day in week Text Tuesday; Tue
a Am/pm marker Text PM
H Hour in day (0-23) Number 0
k Hour in day (1-24) Number 24
K Hour in am/pm (0-11) Number 0
h Hour in am/pm (1-12) Number 12
m Minute in hour Number 30
s Second in minute Number 55
S Millisecond Number 978
z Time zone General time zone Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
Z Time zone RFC 822 time zone -0800
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