Symbol | Meaning | Presentation | Example |
G | era designator | Text | AD |
y | year | Number | 1996 or 96 |
M | month in year | Text or Number | July or Jul or 07 |
d | day in month | Number | 10 |
h | hour in am/pm (1-12) | Number | 12 |
H | hour in day (0-23) | Number | 0 |
m | minute in hour | Number | 30 |
s | second in minute | Number | 55 |
S | millisecond | Number | 978 |
E | day in week | Text | Tuesday or Tue |
D | day in year | Number | 189 |
F | day of week in month | Number | 2 (2nd Wed in July) |
w | week in year | Number | 27 |
W | week in month | Number | 2 |
a | am/pm marker | Text | PM |
k | hour in day (1-24) | Number | 24 |
K | hour in am/pm (0-11) | Number | 0 |
z | time zone | Text | Pacific Standard Time or PST or GMT-08:00 |
Z | RFC 822 time zone (JVM 1.4 or later) | Number | -0800 (offset from GMT/UT) |
' | escape for text | Delimiter | |
' ' | single quote | Literal | ' |