Configure your date and time format

Configure the format of your date

When you open the Template configuration sidebar, you will notice different date and time formatting options in the 'Date' marker:

Form Publisher lets you choose between different formats:

• dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss
• MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss
• yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss

If you want to display the time with AM/PM settings instead of military time, just write 'hh' in lowercase, and add an 'a' in the format settings: 'MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm a'

→ 01/31/2015 6:30 PM

Patterns you can reuse to change your date format

Date and time formats have to follow very specific and precise patterns, formed with letters in uppercase from A to Z, and in lowercase from a to z.

Here is a table displaying the letters used to write date and time using specific formats:

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In general, if there are 4 (or more) pattern letters, text formatting will be applied. If it’s less than 4 letters, the text will be shortened or be recognized as a number:
EEEE → Tuesday
EEE → Tue

Months

Type each pattern letter at least 3 times or more to display them in text format:
MMMM → September
MMM → Sep

Use as many letters as there are digits to display months in number:
MM → 09

Years

Use 2 pattern letters to truncate the year to 2 digits:
YY → 15

Use more than 3 pattern letters to display the year completely, as a number:
YYYY → 2015

Hours and Minutes

By default, hours are displayed between 0 and 23 and minutes between 00 and 59.

Use 2 pattern letters to display hours and minutes with 2 digits:
HH:mm → 22:23

To display hours from 1 to 12, use 'hh':
hh:mm → 10:23

Add 'a' after writting patterns to precise am / pm:
HH:mm a → 10:23 PM

Read the complete documentation about date and time settings