Formatting

Function	Description
uFormatDate	Returns a user defined string with date information.

uFormatDate

Description

Returns a user defined string with date information. See Usage below for a list of special escape sequences in the format string will be replaced by the referring date part.

Syntax

number uFormatDate(format, modifiers, ...)

Parameters

string format: A format specification for the return string

string modifiers (optional): List of strings specifying a date or date calculation. Default is the now modifier.

Examples

Example 1

Create a string from a date

uFormatDate("Today is %A the %d of %B in %Y", "now")
//returns something like "Today is Thursday the 10 of
February in 2005"

Usage

The function uFormatDate returns a user defined string with date information. Special escape sequences in the format string will be replaced by the referring date part.

Escape sequences

Escape sequence	Returns
`%A`	Weekday name
`%a`	Weekday name short
`%B`	Month name
`%b`	Month name short
`%d`	Day of month
`%f`	fractional seconds SS.SSS
`%H`	Hour 00-24
`%j`	Day of year 000-366
`%J`	Julian day number
`%m`	Month
`%M`	Minute
`%s`	Seconds since 1970-01-01
`%S`	Seconds 00-59
`%w`	Day of week 0-6, 0=Sunday
`%W`	Week of year
`%Y`	Year 0000-9999
`%%`	%