date format – Unifinity Creative Lounge

You can specify the display format (format) for displaying dates in labels, text boxes, tables, calendars, and other controls.

The display format of the output results can be controlled by specifying the following format in the "Format" column of the appropriate control.

format specification	type	output (result)
g	Year (1 alphanumeric character)	One of the right. {M, T, S, H, R}
GG	Year (1 kanji character)	One of the right. {Ming, Dai, Sho, Taira, Reiji}
GGG.	Year (2 kanji characters)	One of the right. {Meiji, Taisho, Showa, Showa Heisei, 2025}
E	Japanese calendar year (without initial zero)	For the year 1993 AD, 5.
EE	Japanese calendar year (with initial zero)	For the year 1993 AD, 05.
Y	AD (no head zero)	For the year 1993 AD, 1993. For the year 1 AD, 1.
YY	AD (Last 2 digits, with leading zeros)	For 1993 AD, 93. For the year 1 AD, 01.
YYYYY	AD (4 digits, with leading zeros)	For the year 1993 AD, 1993. For the year 1 AD, 0001.
Mega	Month (no head zero)	1 - 12.
MM	Month (with zero headroom)	01 - 12.
D	Day (no head zero)	1 - 31.
DD	Days (with zero headroom)	01 - 31.
indecent	Time (without head zero)	1 to 23.
indecent	Time (with head zero)	01 - 23.
m	Minutes (without zero headroom)	1-59.
mm	Minutes (with zero headroom)	01 to 59.
s	seconds (without head zero)	1-59.
ss	seconds (with zero headroom)	01 to 59.
W	Day of the week (3 alphabetic characters)	One of the right. {Sun, Mon, Tue,. Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat}
World War II	Day of the week	One of the right. {Sunday, Monday,. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday, Saturday}
World Weather Watch	Day of the week (1 kanji character)	One of the right. {day, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu Fri,Sat}