The function uFormatDate returns a user-defined string with date information. Special escape sequences in the format string will be replaced by the referring date part.
The following table shows the format identifiers.
Identifier |
Date part |
|---|---|
%A |
Weekday name |
%a |
Weekday name short |
%B |
Month name |
%b |
Month name short |
%d |
Day of month |
%f |
Fractional seconds SS.SSS |
%H |
Hour 00-24 |
%j |
Day of year 000-366 |
%J |
Julian day number |
%m |
Month |
%M |
Minute |
%s |
Seconds since 1970-01-01 |
%S |
Seconds 00-59 |
%w |
Day of week 0-6, 0=Sunday |
%W |
Week of year |
%Y |
Year 0000-9999 |
%% |
% |
Refer to the “Working with Dates and Times” section
for detailed information about the possible modifier arguments.
number uFormatDate(format, modifiers, ...)
To create a string from a date:
uFormatDate("Today is %A the %d of %B in %Y", "now") // returns something like "Today is Thursday the 10 of February in 2005"
