DateFormat

30th July 2018 at 8:16pm

When used to display date values (with the format attribute set to date), the ViewWidget accepts a template attribute that allows the format of the date values to be specified. The format string is processed with the following substitutions:

Token	Substituted Value
`DDD`	Day of week in full (eg, "Monday")
`ddd`	Short day of week (eg, "Mon")
`DD`	Day of month
`0DD`	Adds a leading zero
`DDth`	Adds a suffix
`WW`	ISO-8601 week number of year
`0WW`	Adds a leading zero
`MMM`	Month in full (eg, "July")
`mmm`	Short month (eg, "Jul")
`MM`	Month number
`0MM`	Adds leading zero
`YYYY`	Full year
`YY`	Two digit year
`wYYYY`	Full year with respect to week number
`wYY`	Two digit year with respect to week number
`hh`	Hours
`0hh`	Adds a leading zero
`hh12`	Hours in 12 hour clock
`0hh12`	Hours in 12 hour clock with leading zero
`mm`	Minutes
`0mm`	Minutes with leading zero
`ss`	Seconds
`0ss`	Seconds with leading zero
`XXX`	Milliseconds
`0XXX`	Milliseconds with leading zero
`am` or `pm`	Lower case AM/PM indicator
`AM` or `PM`	Upper case AM/PM indicator
`TZD`	Timezone offset
`\x`	Used to escape a character that would otherwise have special meaning
`[UTC]`	Time-shift the represented date to UTC. Must be at very start of format string

Note that other text is passed through unchanged, allowing commas, colons or other separators to be used.

Examples

Template	Output
`DDth MMM YYYY`	16th February 2011
`DDth MMM \M\M\M YYYY`	16th February MMM 2011
`DDth mmm YYYY 0hh:0mm:0ss`	16th Feb 2011 11:38:42