Date and Time Mode¶
The date and time in the EL expression can be displayed in a user-specified format. The date and time format is specified by the date and time mode character string. The date and time mode character string consists of letters from A to Z and from a to z, as shown in Table 1.
Letter | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
G | Epoch | AD |
y | Year | 2001 |
M | Month in a year | July or 07 |
d | Day in a month | 10 |
h | Hour in the 12-hour clock | 12 |
H | Hour in the 24-hour clock | 22 |
m | Minute | 30 |
s | Second | 55 |
S | Millisecond | 234 |
E | Day of a week | Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, or Sun |
D | Date in the year | 360 |
F | Day in a week of a month | 2(second Wed. in July) |
w | Week in a year | 40 |
W | Week in a month | 1 |
a | A.M. /P.M. | PM |
k | Hour in the 24-hour clock | 24 |
K | Hour in the 12-hour clock | 10 |
z | Time zone | Eastern Standard Time |
' | Text delimiter | None |
" | Single quotation mark | No example |
Example¶
To obtain the date of the day before the planned scheduling time of a job, use the following EL expression:
#{DateUtil.format(DateUtil.addDays(Job.planTime,-1),"yyyy-MM-dd")}