How to Use Format Date Command

Steps:

Input:

The Format Date input parsed in 2 ways:

1. By the current locale on the machine.

Examples:

• English US (en_US) - MM/dd/yyyy → 11/25/1981
• English UK (en_GB) - dd/MM/yyyy → 25/11/1981

2. By the default format "yyyy-MM-dd" → 1981-11-25

If you want to make it a safe input, you should use the 2nd option.

Output:

To long date - the value of the parsed date string as LongDatePattern property associated with the current culture.
For example:en-US – “dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy” → Monday, June 04, 2018

de-DE – “dddd, d. MMMM yyyy” → Monday, 4. June 2018

• he-IL – “dddd dd MMMM yyyy” → Monday 04 June 2018
• To short date - the value of the parsed date string as ShortDatePattern property associated with the current culture.

For example:

• en-US – “M/d/yyyy” → 6/4/2018
• de-DE – “dd.MM.yyyy” → 04.06.2018
• he-IL – “dd/MM/yyyy” → 04/06/2018

Use custom format – manual custom format based on C# DateTime formatting rules.
C# standard formatting rules can be found here:

For example:

1. To get the month as 3 letters use: "MMM"

• Input: 2018-04-25
• Output: Apr

2. To get the full month name use: "MMMM"

• Input: 2018-04-25
• Output: April

3. To get the day of the week as 3 letters use: "ddd"

• Input: 2018-04-25
• Output: Wed

4. To get the full day of the week name use: "dddd"

• Input: 2018-04-25 
• Output: Wednesday

Date & time examples for input "2018-06-28 14:46:45":

 

Format	Output
R	Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:46:45 GMT
s	2018-06-28T14:46:45
o	2018-06-28T14:46:45.0000000+03:00