Text tags for date and time

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. This table shows how the tags are used to enter this information.

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: