parseDateWithPattern

Parses a date/time to a specified date/time pattern.

Dates convert to milliseconds when used with standard comparison operators. For example, the expression (60*60*1000) equals one hour.

A common usage of this function is to adjust the current time using a multiplication expression that represents a number of seconds, minutes, hours, or days.

Type and Usage

• "Global Functions"

• "Date and Time"

Parameters

Takes two parameters:

• The first parameter is a date string used by the Content Server, or a date object created with the parseDate or dateCurrent functions.

• The second parameter is the date/time pattern, which is a standard Java SimpleDateFormat pattern string, such as MM/dd/yyyy.

Output

Returns a Java date object, which is converted to a string for display.

Example

Displays the current date and time in the format specified by the pattern (for example, Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700):

<$parseDateWithPattern(<$dateCurrent()$>,"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z")$>

See Also

• "parseDate"

• "dateCurrent"

• "formatDateWithPattern"