Date and time formatting

date-and-time-formatting-switch:\@ [ " ] switch-argument [ " ]

A date-and-time-formatting-switch specifies the format of a date or time result.

Note: : This switch is sometimes called a picture switch because it allows the use of symbols to represent the format of the field result.

If the result of a field is not a date or time, this switch has no effect.

Quotation marks are required around switch-argument if it contains white space; otherwise, they are optional.

If no date-and-time-formatting-switch is present, a date or time result is formatted in an implementation-defined manner.

A date and time switch-argument is made up of a series of picture items.

Date and Time Formatting Picture Items
Picture Item	Description
d	Formats the day of( the week or day of the month as a number without a leading 0 for single-digit days.
dd	Formats the day of the week or day of the month as a number with a leading 0 for single-digit days.
ddd	Formats the day of the week or month in its abbreviated form according to the language specified by the `<lang>` element (§2.3.2.18) on the run containing the field instructions.
dddd	Formats the day of the week as its full name according to the language specified by the `<lang>` element (§2.3.2.18) on the run containing the field instructions.
M	Formats the month as a number without a leading 0 for single-digit months.
MM	Formats the month as a number with a leading 0 for single-digit months.
MMM	Formats the month in its abbreviated form according to the language specified by the `<lang>` element (§2.3.2.18) on the run containing the field instructions.
MMMM	Formats the month as its full name according to the language specified by the `<lang>` element (§2.3.2.18) on the run containing the field instructions.
yy	Formats the year as two digits with a leading 0 for years 0–9.
yyyy	Formats the year as four digits.

In the following time formats, a lowercase h indicates that time is based on a 12-hour clock, while uppercase H indicates time is based on a 24-hour clock.

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Time Formatting Picture Items
Picture Item	Description
h or H	Formats the hour without a leading 0 for single-digit hours.
hh or HH	Formats the hour with a leading 0 for single-digit hours.
m	Formats the minutes without a leading 0 for single-digit minutes.
mm	Formats the minutes with a leading 0 for single-digit minutes.
am/pm or AM/PM	Formats using an am/AM or pm/PM suffix.

Miscellaneous Formatting Picture Items
Picture Item	Description
Other character	Includes the specified character in the result at that position. Note: : Commonly used characters are colon (:), hyphen (-), asterisk (*), slash (/), and space.
'text'	Includes text in the result.
`numbered-item`	Includes, in Arabic numerals, the number of the preceding item numbered as a caption or resulting from a `SEQ` field (§2.16.5.63). numbered-item shall be the same name as identifier in that `SEQ` field.

example:

DATE \@ "M/d/yyyy"	1/3/2006
DATE \@ "dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy"	Tuesday, January 03, 2006
DATE \@ "MMMM d, yyyy"	January 3, 2006
DATE \@ "M/d/yy"	1/3/06
DATE \@ "yyyy-MM-dd"	2006-01-03
DATE \@ "d-MMM-yy"	3-Jan-06
DATE \@ "M.d.yyyy"	1.3.2006
DATE \@ "MMM. d, yy"	Jan. 3, 06
DATE \@ "d MMMM yyyy"	3 January 2006
DATE \@ "MMMM yy"	January 06
DATE \@ "MMM-yy"	Jan-06
DATE \@ "M/d/yyyy h:mm am/pm"	1/3/2006 5:28 PM
DATE \@ "M/d/yyyy h:mm:ss am/pm"	1/3/2006 5:28:34 PM
DATE \@ "h:mm am/pm"	5:28 PM
DATE \@ "h:mm:ss am/pm"	5:28:34 PM
DATE \@ "HH:mm"	17:28
DATE \@ "'Today is 'HH:mm:ss"	Today is 17:28:34