Question

Different annotations of a date in email?

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I want to show a date as a text in a body of a email that is automatically send out by my Mendix application. It now states: Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 CEST 2009 is it possible to show different annotations of this date? For example 22 August 2009? Or 22/08/2009?

asked 2009-08-20

Floor van Gageldonk

3 answers

Floor van Gageldonk · Answer 1 · 2009-08-20

Michel, thank you for your answer. For the users who cannot login to the link Michel refers to, these are the parsing commands for date/time:

Format to day-month-year ("08-06-2008") use:

formatDateTime($object/Date1,'dd-MM-yyyy')

Format to day of week, day month year, time, timezone ('su, 8 jun 2008 10:12:01 +0200') use:

formatDateTime($object/Date1,'EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z')

Format to full day of week ('sunday') use:

formatDateTime($object/Date1,'EEEE')

Michel Vermeer · Answer 2 · 2009-08-20

You check this answer for more information on converting date time attributes

Fedor Klinkenberg · Answer 3 · 2009-08-20

You should ask a Java programmer to write your preferred annotation in Java.