18.11. Element: QuickRev / Configuration / Date

18.11. Element: QuickRev / Configuration / Date
	Chapter 18. Configuration

	Name	Use	Values	Changeable via the QuickRev menu	Description
Element	Date	optional	EMPTY		Definition of date format specific settings.
Attributes	format	optional	string	no	Defines the default output format used for date/time. The default value is `yyyy-MM-dd` which results in e.g. `2009-02-01`.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<QuickRev configName="name">
  <Configuration>
  
    <Date format="yyyy/MM/dd"/>

  </Configuration>
</QuickRev>

Date and Time Formatting Patterns

The table below shows the most important formatting patterns.
For a full list of all formatting options take a look at the java documentation of class http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html.

Plain text has to be quoted with single quotes ('). A double single quote ('') represents a single quote.

Pattern	Represents	Example	Comment
y	Year	2009; 09	Two pattern letters truncates the year to two numbers.
M	Month	02; Feb; February	Up to two pattern letters are interpreted as text, more as string.
d	Day	02
H	Hour	13
m	Minute	38
s	Second	12

Examples

The following table shows some examples.

Pattern	Output
yyyy/MMMMM/dd	2009/February/02
d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss	2 Feb 2009 13:51:29
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss	2009-02-02T13:53:30
dd.MM.yyyy HH 'o''clock'	02.02.2009 13 o'clock