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 (1 to 12) | 12 |
H | Hour in the 24-hour clock (0 to 23) | 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 (1 to 24) | 24 |
K | Hour in the 12-hour clock (0 to 11) | 10 |
z | Time zone | Eastern Standard Time |
' | Text delimiter | None |
" | Single quotation mark | No example |
Note
The date and time mode is generally used in DateUtil embedded objects and Job embedded objects. For more examples of how the date and time mode is used, see DateUtil Embedded Objects and Job Embedded Objects.
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")}