datetime¶
Makes a value of datetime 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 date.
Examples¶
// example: 08/23/73
$('AVar').datetime('MM/dd/yy')
// example: 10/23/12 10:59 PM
$('AVar').datetime('MM/dd/yy h:mm a')
// example: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700
$('AVar').datetime('EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z')
// example: 2008-03-01T13:00:00+01:00
$('AVar').datetime("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ")