Date Formatting Symbols

The following table describes the date format symbols that you can use when formatting dates in Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Data Management, such as when defining extract options or using the toDate or format methods in expressions. Note that the fields are case-sensitive.

Symbol	Date or Time Component	Examples
G	Era designator	AD
y	Year	1996; 96
Y	Week year	2009; 09
M	Month in year	July; July; 07
w	Week in year	27
W	Week in month	2
D	Day in year	10
d	Day in month	2
E	Day name in week	Tuesday; Tue
u	Day number of week (1 = Monday, 7 = Sunday)	1