Rule date & time format

Date format patterns are constructed using the following tokens:

D : the day of the month in 1 or 2 digits
DD : the day of the month in 2 digits
Do : the day of the month as an ordinal number (e.g. '3rd')
ddd : the short name of the day of the week
dddd : the full name of the day of the week
M : the month of the year in 1 or 2 digits
MM : the month of the year in 2 digits
MMM : the short name of the month of the year
MMMM : the full name of the month of the year
YY : the year as 2 digits
YYYY : the year as 4 digits
A : 'AM' or 'PM'
a : 'am' or 'pm'
H : the hour on a 24-hour clock in 1 or 2 digits
HH : the hour on a 24-hour clock in 2 digits
h : the hour on a 12-hour clock in 1 or 2 digits
hh : the hour on a 12-hour clock in 2 digits
mm : the minutes in 2 digits
ss : the seconds in 2 digits
S : fractional seconds (e.g. 'SSS' denotes milliseconds)
Z : timezone offset with colon (e.g. '+06:00')
z : timezone offset without colon (e.g. '-0500')
X : Unix timestamp
x : Unix millisecond timestamp

Any other characters or punctuation in the date/time text can be specified explicitly.

Examples

• 2018-01-01 = "YYYY-MM-DD"
• Friday, November 23, 2018 = "dddd, MMMM D, YYYY"
• 2018-11-01T16:15:00-07:00 = "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ"