Format Date

Introduction

This step formats a date into a specified format, allowing for customized date and time representations.

Description

Converts a given date into the specified format, suitable for different locales and formats.

Configuration

1. Date: Choose the date to be formatted. This is a required field.

2. Format: Define the date format expression (e.g., "dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss"). Refer formatting details below. This is a required field.

3. Locale: Select the locale that influences the format, such as date symbols and text. This is a required field.

Outputs

• Value: The formatted date as a string.

Usage

Ideal for presenting dates in reports, notifications, or user interfaces, matching specific regional or format preferences.

Date formatting

Symbol	Meaning	Presentation	Examples
G	era	text	AD; Anno Domini; A
u	year	year	2004; 04
y	year-of-era	year	2004; 04
D	day-of-year	number	189
M/L	month-of-year	number/text	7; 07; Jul; July; J
d	day-of-month	number	10
g	modified-julian-day	number	2451334
Q/q	quarter-of-year	number/text	3; 03; Q3; 3rd quarter
Y	week-based-year	year	1996; 96
w	week-of-week-based-year	number	27
W	week-of-month	number	4
E	day-of-week	text	Tue; Tuesday; T
e/c	localized day-of-week	number/text	2; 02; Tue; Tuesday; T
F	day-of-week-in-month	number	3
a	am-pm-of-day	text	PM
B	period-of-day	text	in the morning
h	clock-hour-of-am-pm (1-12)	number	12
K	hour-of-am-pm (0-11)	number	0
k	clock-hour-of-day (1-24)	number	24
H	hour-of-day (0-23)	number	0
m	minute-of-hour	number	30
s	second-of-minute	number	55
S	fraction-of-second	fraction	978
A	milli-of-day	number	1234
n	nano-of-second	number	987654321
N	nano-of-day	number	1234000000
V	time-zone ID	zone-id	America/Los_Angeles; Z; -08:30
v	generic time-zone name	zone-name	Pacific Time; PT
z	time-zone name	zone-name	Pacific Standard Time; PST
O	localized zone-offset	offset-O	GMT+8; GMT+08:00; UTC-08:00
X	zone-offset 'Z' for zero	offset-X	Z; -08; -0830; -08:30; -083015; -08:30:15
x	zone-offset	offset-x	+0000; -08; -0830; -08:30; -083015; -08:30:15
Z	zone-offset	offset-Z	+0000; -0800; -08:00
p	pad next	pad modifier	1
'	escape for text	delimiter
''	single quote	literal	'