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formatDateWithPattern

Reformats a date/time to a specified date/time pattern.

Type and Usage

• "Global Functions"

• "Date and Time"

Parameters

Takes two parameters:

• The first parameter is a date string used by the Content Server, or a date object created with the parseDate or dateCurrent functions.

• The second parameter is the date/time pattern, such as MM/dd/yyyy.

  The capital letter Z denotes the use of a UTC time zone for the entry. The lowercase zzzz denotes the time offset (HHMM) from the UTC time, preceded by a plus (+) or minus (-) sign to indicate the offset.

Output

• Returns the date/time in the format specified by the pattern parameter.

• Returns null if the parameter cannot be evaluated.

Example

Displays Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:08:56 -0700:

<$formatDateWithPattern(dateCurrent(),"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzzz")$>

Displays 2006-07-05 14:30:33Z:

<$formatDateWithPattern(dateCurrent(),"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ssZ")$>