Unicode date and time format guide

Symbol	Meaning	Example
G	era designator	G	AD
y	year	yy yyyy or y	96 1996
Y	year of "Week of Year"	Y	1997
u	extended year	u	4601
U	cyclic year name, as in Chinese lunar calendar	U	甲子
Q	quarter	Q or QQ QQQ QQQQ	02 Q2 2nd quarter
q	Stand Alone quarter	q or qq qqq qqqq	02 Q2 2nd quarter
M	month in year	M or MM MMM MMMM MMMMM	09 Sept September S
L	Stand Alone month in year	L or LL LLL LLLL LLLLL	09 Sept September S
w	week of year	w or ww	27
W	week of month	W	2
d	day in month	d dd	2 02
D	day of year	D	189
F	day of week in month		2 (2nd Wed in July)
g	modified julian day	g	2451334
E	day of week	E, EE, or EEE EEEE EEEEE	Tues Tuesday T
e	local day of week example: if Monday is 1st day, Tuesday is 2nd )	e or ee eee eeee eeeee	2 Tues Tuesday T
c	Stand Alone local day of week	e or ee eee eeee eeeee	2 Tues Tuesday T
a	am/pm marker	a	pm
h	hour in am/pm (1~12)	h hh	7 07
H	hour in day (0~23)	H HH	0 00
k	hour in day (1~24)	k kk	24 24
K	hour in am/pm (0~11)	K KK	0 00
m	minute in hour	m mm	4 04
s	second in minute	s ss	5 05
S	millisecond (maximum of 3 significant digits); for S or SS, truncates to the number of letters for SSSS or longer, fills additional places with 0	S SS SSS SSSS	2 23 235 2350
A	milliseconds in day	A	61201235
z	Time Zone: specific non-location	z, zz, or zzz zzzz	PDT Pacific Daylight Time
Z	Time Zone: RFC 822 Time Zone: localized GMT TIme Zone: ISO8601	Z, ZZ, or ZZZ ZZZZ ZZZZZ	-0800 GMT-08:00 -08:00
v	Time Zone: generic non-location	v vvvv	PT Pacific Time or United States (Los Angeles)
V	Time Zone: specific non-location, identical to z	V	PDT
VVVV	Time Zone: generic location	VVVV	United States (Los Angeles)
W	week in month		2
'	escape for text	'	(nothing)
' '	two single quotes produce one	' '	'

Format Pattern	Result
yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss zzz	1996.07.10 AD at 15:08:56 PDT
EEE, MMM d, ''yy	Wed, July 10, '96
h:mm a	12:08 PM
hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz	12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time
K:mm a, z	0:00 PM, PST
yyyyy.MMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa	01996.July.10 AD 12:08 PM