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Note
The pattern letters and patterns on this page are only suitable for displaying dates and times in
templates, not for extracting dates in the DataMapper module. For pattern letters and patterns
available in the DataMapper, see "Extracting dates" on page145.
Pattern letters
Letter Component Presentation Examples
G Era designator Text AD
y Year Year 1996; 96
Y Week year Year 2009; 09
M Month in year Month July; Jul; 07
w Week in year Number 27
W Week in month Number 2
D Day in year Number 189
d Day in month Number 10
F Day of week in month Number 2
E Day name in week Text Tuesday; Tue
u
Day number of week (1 = Monday, ..., 7
= Sunday)
Number 1
a Am/pm marker Text PM
H Hour in day (0-23) Number 0
k Hour in day (1-24) Number 24
K Hour in am/pm (0-11) Number 0
h Hour in am/pm (1-12) Number 12
m Minute in hour Number 30
s Second in minute Number 55
S Millisecond Number 978
z Time zone
General time
zone
Pacific Standard Time; PST;
GMT-08:00
Z Time zone
RFC 822 time
zone
-0800
X Time zone
ISO 8601 time
-08; -0800; -08:00
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