Date and time patterns
When defining data type options for date and time data, you can create your own custom date or time pattern if the predefined ones do not meet your needs. To create a date or time pattern, use the notation described in the table below. For example, this pattern:
dd MMMM yyyy
Would produce a date like this:
14 December 2020
| Letter | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| G | Era designator | AD |
| yy | Two-digit year | 96 |
| yyyy | Four-digit year | 1996 |
| M | Numeric month of the year. | 7 |
| MM | Numeric month of the year. If the number is less than 10 a zero is added to make it a two-digit number. | 07 |
| MMM | Short name of the month | Jul |
| MMMM | Long name of the month | July |
| w | Week of the year | 27 |
| ww | Two-digit week of the year. If the week is less than 10 an extra zero is added. | 06 |
| W | Week of the month | 2 |
| D | Day of the year | 189 |
| DDD | Three-digit day of the year. If the number contains less than three digits, zeros are added. | 006 |
| d | Day of the month | 10 |
| dd | Two-digit day of the month. Numbers less than 10 have a zero added. | 09 |
| F | Day of the week in month | 2 |
| E | Short name of the day of the week | Tue |
| EEEE | Long name of the day of the week | Tuesday |
| a | AM PM marker | PM |
| H | Hour of the day, with the first hour being 0 and the last hour being 23. | 0 |
| HH | Two-digit hour of the day, with the first hour being 0 and the last hour being 23. Numbers less than 10 have a zero added. | 08 |
| k | Hour of the day, with the first hour being 1 and the last hour being 24. | 24 |
| kk | Two-digit hour of the day, with the first hour being 1 and the last hour being 24. Numbers less than 10 have a zero added. | 02 |
| K | Hour hour of the morning (AM) or afternoon (PM), with 0 being the first hour and 11 being the last hour. | 0 |
| KK | Two-digit hour of the day, with the first hour being 1 and the last hour being 24. Numbers less than 10 have a zero added. | 02 |
| h | Hour of the morning (AM) or afternoon (PM), with 1 being the first hour and 12 being the last hour. | 12 |
| hh | Two-digit hour of the morning (AM) or afternoon (PM), with 1 being the first hour and 12 being the last hour. Numbers less than 10 have a zero added. | 09 |
| m | Minute of the hour | 30 |
| mm | Two-digit minutes of the hour. Numbers less than 10 have a zero added. | 05 |
| s | Second of the minute | 55 |
| ss | Two-digit second of the minute. Numbers less than 10 have a zero added. | 02 |
| S | Millisecond of the second | 978 |
| SSS | Three-digit millisecond of the second. Numbers containing fewer than three digits will have one or two zeros added to make them three digits. |
978 |
| z | Time abbreviation of the time zone name. If the time zone does not have a name, the GMT offset. |
PST |
| zzzz | The full time zone name. If the time zone does not have a name, the GMT offset. |
Pacific Standard Time |
| Z | The RFC 822 time zone. | -0800 |
| X | The ISO 8601 time zone. | -08Z |
| XX | The ISO 8601 time zone with minutes. | -0800Z |
| XXX | The ISO 8601 time zone with minutes and a colon separator between hours and minutes. | -08:00Z |