Date and Time Mode

Updated on 2022-09-23 GMT+08:00

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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.

**Table 1** Letter description
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")}

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