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.

Syntax

datetime(format)

Parameter	Description
format	The date format pattern to be used.

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")