Tokens to parse date and time

Rita Pang
Rita Pang
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Refer to the below for a list of tokens available for to parse date and time.

Year, month, and day tokens

Input Example Description
YYYY 2014 4 or 2 digit year
YY 14 2 digit year
Y -25 Year with any number of digits and sign
Q 1..4 Quarter of year. Sets month to first month in quarter.
M MM 1..12 Month number
MMM MMMM Jan..December Month name
D DD 1..31 Day of month
Do 1st..31st Day of month with ordinal
DDD DDDD 1..365 Day of year
X 1410715640.579 Unix timestamp
x 1410715640579 Unix ms timestamp

 

Week year, week, and weekday tokens

Input Example Description
ddd dddd Mon...Sunday Day name
GGGG 2014 ISO 4 digit week year
GG 14 ISO 2 digit week year
W WW 1..53 ISO week of year
E 1..7 ISO day of week

 

Hour, minute, second, millisecond, and offset tokens

Input Example Description
H HH 0..23 Hours (24 hour time)
h hh 1..12 Hours (12 hour time used with a A.)
k kk 1..24 Hours (24 hour time from 1 to 24)
a A am pm Post or ante meridiem (Note the one character a p are also considered valid)
m mm 0..59 Minutes
s ss 0..59 Seconds
S SS SSS 0..999 Fractional seconds
Z ZZ +12:00 Offset from UTC as +-HH:mm+-HHmm, or Z

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