date¶
Makes a value of date type by parsing the text value given a date format pattern.
The pattern should be defined from the Java Date Format Specifications:
Letter | Date or time component | Example |
---|---|---|
G | Era designator | AD |
y | Year | 1996; 96 |
Y | Week year | 2009; 09 |
M | Month in year | July; Jul; 07 |
w | Week in year | 27 |
W | Week in month | 2 |
D | Day in year | 189 |
d | Day in month | 10 |
F | Day of week in month | 2 |
E | Day name in week | Tuesday; Tue |
u | Day number of week (1 = Monday, …, 7 = Sunday) | 1 |
a | Am/pm marker | PM |
H | Hour in day (0-23) | 0 |
k | Hour in day (1-24) | 24 |
K | Hour in am/pm (0-11) | 0 |
h | Hour in am/pm (1-12) | 12 |
m | Minute in hour | 30 |
s | Second in minute | 55 |
S | Millisecond | 978 |
z | Time zone | Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00 |
Z | Time zone | -0800 |
X | Time zone | -08; -0800; -08:00 |
See also datetime.
Examples¶
// example: 08/23/73
$('AVar').date('MM/dd/yy')
// example: Dec 31, 2009
$('AVar').date('MMM dd, yyyy')
// example: Wed, Jul 4, '01
$('AVar').date("EEE, MMM d, ''yy")