Date formats

Use the following table to specify date formats. For further information on valid date formats used in this step, view the Date Formatting Table.

Letter	Date of Time Component	Presentation	Examples
G	Era designator	Text	AD
y	Year	Year	1996 or 96
M	Month in year	Month	July, Jul, or 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 in week	Text	Tuesday or Tue
a	am/pm marker	Text	PM
H	Hour in day (0-23)	Number 0	n/a
k	Hour in day (1-24)	Number 24	n/a
K	Hour in am/pm (0-11)	Number 0	n/a
h	Hour in am/pm (1-12)	Number 12	n/a
m	Minute in hour	Number 30	n/a
s	Second in minute	Number 55	n/a
S	Millisecond	Number 978	n/a
z	Time zone	General time zone	Pacific Standard Time, PST, or GMT-08:00
Z	Time zone	RFC 822 time zone	-0800