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: |