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Nils Braden edited this page Mar 14, 2015 · 1 revision

Introduction

The DateFormat strings used by TT-RSS Reader are those of the Android SDK. The Android SDK documentation is intended for developers, which makes it a bit hard to understand for some users. This article aims to give a simple overview of the more common components that you can use to compose a date / time format string.

Components

You can combine any of the following components in any order you like: The examples for each component refer to this example date and time: Friday, 1 July 2011, 09:01:01 PM

  • a = AM/PM indicator (PM)
  • d = Day of month (1), dd for zero-padding (01)
  • E = Day of week (Fri), EEEE to get the day name (Friday)
  • h = Hour - 12-hour format (9), hh for zero-padding (09)
  • k = Hour - 24-hour format (21), kk for zero-padding (21)
  • m = Minute (1), mm for zero-padding (01)
  • M = Month (7), MM for zero-padding (07), MMMM to get the month name (July)
  • s = Second (1), ss for zero-padding (01)
  • y = Year (11), yyyy for 4-digit year (2011)

So, to get our example date format, we would enter 'EEEE, d MMMM yyyy, hh:mm:ss a'.

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