This gives an overview of how to specify date formats in ROB-EX. Dates are constructed with a string that specifies a pattern for the dates to be formatted and/or parsed. The characters in the below table can be used in date formats. Where appropriate, 4 or more of the character will be interpreted to mean that the long format of the element should be used, while fewer than 4 mean that a short format should be used.
Example 1: ‘dd-MM-yyyy’ will result in “02-11-2009”
Example 2: ‘dd-MMM-yyyy’ will result in “02-Nov-2009”
Example 3: ‘dd-MM-yy HH:mm’ will result in “02-11-09 23:02”
Example 4: ‘yy/MM/dd h:mm aa’ will result in “09/11/02 11:02 PM”
| Symbol | Meaning | Type | Example |
| G | Era | Text | ″GG″ -> ″AD″ |
| y | Year | Number | ″yy″ -> ″03″ ″yyyy″ -> ″2003″ |
| M | Month | Text or Number | ″M″ -> ″7″ ″M″ -> ″12″ ″MM″ -> ″07″ ″MMM″ -> ″Jul″ ″MMMM″ -> ″December″ |
| d | Day in month | Number | ″d″ -> ″3″ ″dd″ -> ″03″ |
| h | Hour (1-12, AM/PM) | Number | ″h″ -> ″3″ ″hh″ -> ″03″ |
| H | Hour (0-23) | Number | ″H″ -> ″15″ ″HH″ -> ″15″ |
| k | Hour (1-24) | Number | ″k″ -> ″3″ ″kk″ -> ″03″ |
| K | Hour (0-11 AM/PM) | Number | ″K″ -> ″15″ ″KK″ -> ″15″ |
| m | Minute | Number | ″m″ -> ″7″ ″m″ -> ″15″ ″mm″ -> ″15″ |
| s | Second | Number | ″s″ -> ″15″ ″ss″ -> ″15″ |
| S | Millisecond (0-999) | Number | ″SSS″ -> ″007″ |
| E | Day in week | Text | ″EEE″ -> ″Tue″ ″EEEE″ -> ″Tuesday″ |
| D | Day in year (1-365 or 1-364) | Number | ″D″ -> ″65″ ″DDD″ -> ″065″ |
| F | Day of week in month (1-5) | Number | ″F″ -> ″1″ |
| w | Week in year (1-53) | Number | ″w″ -> ″7″ |
| W | Week in month (1-5) | Number | ″W″ -> ″3″ |
| a | AM/PM | Text | ″a″ -> ″AM″ ″aa″ -> ″AM″ |
| z | Time zone | Text | ″z″ -> ″EST″ ″zzz″ -> ″EST″ ″zzzz″ -> ″Eastern Standard Time″ |
| text within ‘ | Escape for text | Delimiter | ″‘hour’ h″ -> ″hour 9″ |
'' |
Single quote | Literal | ″ss’‘SSS″ -> ″45′876″ |
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