Custom Date and Time format

The custom date and time format is described by a string with value-substitution tags for dates and times:

Tags for substituting values for dates and times

Custom Display name format

The custom Display name format is described by a string with value-substitution tags:

Tags for substituting values

Tag	What does	Sample
`G`	Era designator	AD
`y`	Year (4 digits)	2012
`yy`	Year (2 digits)	12
`yyyy`	Year (4 digits)	2012
`M`	Month number without leading zeros	2
`MM`	Month number with leading zeros	02
`MMM`	Three-letter reduction of the month	Feb
`MMMM`	Full name of the month	February
`w`	Week in a year without leading zeros	7
`ww`	Week in a year with leading zeros	07
`W`	Week in a month without leading zeros	2
`WW`	Week in a month with leading zeros	02
`D`	Day in year	38
`d`	Day in month without leading zeros	7
`dd`	Day in month with leading zeros	07
`F`	Day of week in month without leading zeros	1
`FF`	Day of week in month with leading zeros	01
`E`	Shortening the name of the day in week	Tue
`EEEE`	Day name in week	Tuesday
`a`	Am/pm marker	AM
`H`	Hour in day (0-23) without leading zeros	6
`HH`	Hour in day (0-23) with leading zeros	06
`h`	Hour in am/pm (1-12) without leading zeros	6
`hh`	Hour in am/pm (1-12) with leading zeros	06
`m`	Minute in hour without leading zeros	2
`mm`	Minute in hour with leading zeros	02
`s`	Second in minute without leading zeros	1
`ss`	Second in minute with leading zeros	01
`S`	Millisecond	109
`z`	Time zone	EET
`Z`	Time zone (RFC 822)	+0200
`'`	escape character for text	‘Date=’
`''`	quotation mark	‘o”clock’

Format string	Result
`yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z`	2012.02.07 AD at 16:55:57 EET
`EEE, MMM d, ''yy`	Tue, Feb 7, ’12
`h:mm a`	4:55 PM
`hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz`	04 o’clock PM, Eastern European Time
`yyyyy.MMMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa`	02012.February.07 AD 04:55 PM
`EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z`	Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:55:57 +0200
`yyMMddHHmmssZ`	120207165557+0200