Text tags for date and time

In text attributes, you can use tags to indicate date and time values.
Table 1. Text tags to indicate date and time values
Symbol Meaning Example
G Era AD
y Year 07
M Month Jul (July)
d Day in month 10
h Hour in a.m. and p.m. (1 - 12) 12
H Hour in day (0 - 23) 0
m Minute 30
s Second 55
S Millisecond 978
E Day in week Tue (Tuesday)
D Day in year 189
F Day of week in month 2 (the second Friday in July)
w Week in year 27
W Week in month 2
a a.m. and p.m. marker PM
k Hour in day (1 - 24) 24
K Hour in a.m. and p.m. (0 - 11) 0
z Time zone Pacific Standard Time
' Escape for text  
'' Single quotation mark '
'Text' Text that you type in the field Text
'INITIALS' The initials of the user JS
'USERNAME' The user name of the user johsm
'FULLNAME' The full name of the user John Smith
If the number of pattern letters is 4 or more, the full form is used; otherwise, a short or abbreviated form is used, if available. For example, EEEE might result in Tuesday, while E results in Tue. For more information, see the Java™ documentation about the SimpleDateFormat class.
John Smith is a user with the user name johsm. The date and time are 5 December 2007 at 11:55:26 in Central European Time. The following table shows how the tags are used to enter this information.
Table 2. Example of text tag
Text tag Result
INITIALS'yyyyMMdd':' JS20071205:
'FULLNAME 'd' 'MMM' 'yyyy':' John Smith 5 Dec 2007:
'INITIALS 'EEEEEEEEE' 'dd' 'MMMMMMMMM' 'yyyy' at 'hh':'mm' 'aa' ('z'):' JS Wednesday 05 December 2007 at 11:55 AM (CET):
yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z 2007.12.05 AD at 11:55:26 CET
'USERNAME Week 'w':' johsm Week 48:

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