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  • Description
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  1. Actions And Visual Logic
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  3. React Native
  4. Format

dateTime

Description

Formats a date, time or datetime to follow certain standard date patterns (e.g. "MM-DD-YYYY")

Input / Parameter

Name
Description
Input Type
Default
Options
Required

date

The reference date to be formatted.

Text

-

-

Yes

currentFormat

The current date format of the date to be formatted.

Text

yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss

yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss, yyyy-MM-dd, HH:mm:ss, y, M, d, h, H, m, s, S, E, z

No

newFormat

The new date format to update the current date format.

Text

yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss

yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss, y, M, d, h, H, m, s, S, E, z

No

Supported date pattern letters

Years:

  • YYYY: 4-digit year (e.g., 2021)

  • YY: 2-digit year (e.g., 21 for 2021)

Months:

  • MMMM: Full month name (e.g., January, February)

  • MMM: Short month name (e.g., Jan, Feb)

  • MM: Month as a 2-digit number (01 for January)

  • M: Month as a number (1 for January)

Days:

  • DD: Day of the month as a 2-digit number (e.g., 09)

  • D: Day of the month as a number (e.g., 9)

  • dddd: Full day name (e.g., Monday, Tuesday)

  • ddd: Short day name (e.g., Mon, Tue)

Hours:

  • HH: Hours (24-hour clock) as a 2-digit number

  • H: Hours (24-hour clock) as a number

  • hh: Hours (12-hour clock) as a 2-digit number

  • h: Hours (12-hour clock) as a number

Minutes:

  • mm: Minutes as a 2-digit number

  • m: Minutes as a number

Seconds:

  • ss: Seconds as a 2-digit number

  • s: Seconds as a number

AM/PM:

  • A: AM/PM uppercase

  • a: am/pm lowercase

Time Zone:

  • Z: UTC offset (e.g., +07:00)

  • ZZ: UTC offset in a compact format (e.g., +0700)

These symbols can be combined in any way to match the format of your input date string. For example:

  • YYYY-MM-DD: Represents dates like "2021-03-14"

  • dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a: Represents dates like "Sunday, March 14th 2021, 5:30:45 pm"

Remember, the format in parameter currentFormat should match the structure of date you're parsing.

Output

Description
Output Type

Returns the formatted date with the correct pattern.

Text

Example

In this example, we will change the format of a date string and print the formatted date in the console.

Step

  1. Drag a button component into the canvas and open the Action tab. Select the press event of the button and drag the Log.write function to the event flow.

  2. Call the function Format.dateTime inside the Log.write function.

  3. Sample parameters are shown in the picture below.

Result

  1. The console will print the formatted date.

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