The Message Agent uses this option when replicating columns that store a time. The format is a string using the following
symbols:
Symbol
Description
HH
Two digit hours (24-hour clock).
NN
Two digit minutes.
MM
Two-digit minutes if following a colon (as in HH:MM).
SS.SSSSSS
Seconds and fractions of a second, up to six decimal places. Not all platforms support timestamps to a precision of six places.
Each symbol is substituted with the appropriate data for the time that is being formatted. Any format symbol that represents
character rather than digit output can be put in uppercase, which causes the substituted characters to also be in uppercase.
For numbers, using mixed case in the format string suppresses leading zeros.