October 02
Date Formatting in Reporting Services - list of format codes
The Date Formatting article that I wrote earlier seems to be quite popular. As a follow up to that , I stumbled accross the full list of date formatting patterns on MSDN. I haven't had a chance to try out them all , but here it is :
| Format Pattern
| Description
|
| d
| The day of the month. Single-digit days will not have a leading zero.
|
| dd
| The day of the month. Single-digit days will have a leading zero.
|
| ddd
| The abbreviated name of the day of the week, as defined in AbbreviatedDayNames
|
| dddd
| The full name of the day of the week, as defined in DayNamesTD>
|
| M
| The numeric month. Single-digit months will not have a leading zero.
|
| MM
| The numeric month. Single-digit months will have a leading zero.
|
| MMM
| The abbreviated name of the month, as defined in AbbreviatedMonthNames.
|
| MMMM
| The full name of the month, as defined in MonthNames.
|
| y
| The year without the century. If the year without the century is less than 10, the year is displayed with no leading zero.
|
| yy
| The year without the century. If the year without the century is less than 10, the year is displayed with a leading zero.
|
| yyyy
| The year in four digits, including the century.
|
| gg
| The period or era. This pattern is ignored if the date to be formatted does not have an associated period or era string.
|
| h
| The hour in a 12-hour clock. Single-digit hours will not have a leading zero.
|
| hh
| The hour in a 12-hour clock. Single-digit hours will have a leading zero.
|
| H
| The hour in a 24-hour clock. Single-digit hours will not have a leading zero.
|
| HH
| The hour in a 24-hour clock. Single-digit hours will have a leading zero.
|
| m
| The minute. Single-digit minutes will not have a leading zero.
|
| mm
| The minute. Single-digit minutes will have a leading zero.
|
| s
| The second. Single-digit seconds will not have a leading zero.
|
| ss
| The second. Single-digit seconds will have a leading zero.
|
| f
| The fraction of a second in single-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated.
|
| ff
| The fraction of a second in double-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated.
|
| fff
| The fraction of a second in three-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated.
|
| ffff
| The fraction of a second in four-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated.
|
| fffff
| The fraction of a second in five-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated.
|
| ffffff
| The fraction of a second in six-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated.
|
| fffffff
| The fraction of a second in seven-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated.
|
| t
| The first character in the AM/PM designator defined in AMDesignator or PMDesignator, if any.
|
| tt
| The AM/PM designator defined in AMDesignator or PMDesignator, if any.
|
| z
| The time zone offset ("+" or "-" followed by the hour only). Single-digit hours will not have a leading zero. For example, Pacific Standard Time is "-8".
|
| zz
| The time zone offset ("+" or "-" followed by the hour only). Single-digit hours will have a leading zero. For example, Pacific Standard Time is "-08".
|
| zzz
| The full time zone offset ("+" or "-" followed by the hour and minutes). Single-digit hours and minutes will have leading zeros. For example, Pacific Standard Time is "-08:00".
|
| :
| The default time separator defined in TimeSeparator.
|
| /
| The default date separator defined in DateSeparator.
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| % c
| Where c is a format pattern if used alone. The "%" character can be omitted if the format pattern is combined with literal characters or other format patterns.
|
| \ c
| Where c is any character. Displays the character literally. To display the backslash character, use "\\". |
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