Tokens for date/time parsing
Patrik Šimek
Updated
Year, month, and day tokens
| Input | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
YYYY |
2014 |
4 or 2 digit year |
YY |
14 |
2 digit year |
Y |
-25 |
Year with any number of digits and sign |
Q |
1..4 |
Quarter of year. Sets month to first month in quarter. |
M MM |
1..12 |
Month number |
MMM MMMM |
Jan..December |
Month name |
D DD |
1..31 |
Day of month |
Do |
1st..31st |
Day of month with ordinal |
DDD DDDD |
1..365 |
Day of year |
X |
1410715640.579 |
Unix timestamp |
x |
1410715640579 |
Unix ms timestamp |
Week year, week, and weekday tokens
| Input | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
ddd dddd |
Mon...Sunday |
Day name |
GGGG |
2014 |
ISO 4 digit week year |
GG |
14 |
ISO 2 digit week year |
W WW |
1..53 |
ISO week of year |
E |
1..7 |
ISO day of week |
Hour, minute, second, millisecond, and offset tokens
| Input | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|
H HH |
0..23 |
Hours (24 hour time) |
h hh |
1..12 |
Hours (12 hour time used with a A.) |
k kk |
1..24 |
Hours (24 hour time from 1 to 24) |
a A |
am pm |
Post or ante meridiem (Note the one character a p are also considered valid) |
m mm |
0..59 |
Minutes |
s ss |
0..59 |
Seconds |
S SS SSS |
0..999 |
Fractional seconds |
Z ZZ |
+12:00 |
Offset from UTC as +-HH:mm, +-HHmm, or Z |