dateFormat

Typefunction
DictionaryLCS
LibraryLiveCode Script
Syntax
the [{ long | abbreviated | short }] [{ english | system }] dateFormat
Summary

Returns a string describing a given date format using the syntax described below.

Introduced1.1
OSmac, windows, linux, ios, android
Platformsdesktop, server, mobile
Example
put the long dateFormat into stringToParse
Values
NameTypeDescription
return

The dateFormat function returns a string.

RelatedKeyword: string, long, english, short, system, abbreviated
Property: useSystemDate
Command: convert
Function: monthNames, format, date, weekdayNames
Control Structure: function
Glossary: return
Description

Use the dateFormat function to obtain the general format of the date for further processing.

The dateFormat function returns a string containing one or more formatting incantations, each of which describes a part of the requested date format. The possible incantations are as follows:

%a Abbreviated weekday name: the abbreviated day of the week, as reported by the weekdayNames function

%A Full weekday name: the full day of the week, as reported by the weekdayNames function

%b Abbreviated month name: the abbreviated month name, as reported by the monthNames function

%B Full month name: the full month name, as reported by the monthNames function

%d Day of the month: the day of the month as a number

%m Month number: the number of the month

%y Two-digit year: the year as a two-digit number

%Y Four-digit year: This incantation indicates the year as a four-digit number (including the century)

%w Day of the week: A number between 1 and 7

Note: The dateFormat differs from other date/time functionality in that the default is to return information relative to the system locale. i.e. the dateFormat is equivalent to the system dateFormat

Tagsmath