Automation Guide Action-based testing language Built-in settings Date, time settings

 date format

date format

Description

Specify the date format for output.

Allowable values

Date format: year format–month format–day format.

• yyyy

  Four-digit year (e.g. 2005).

• yy

  Two-digit year (e.g. 05).

• mmmm

  Long month name. All letters are lowercase (e.g. september).

• Mmmm

  Long month name. Only the first letter is uppercase (e.g. September).

• MMMM

  Long month name. All letters are uppercase (e.g. SEPTEMBER).

• mmm

  Short month name. All letters are lowercase (e.g. sep).

• Mmm

  Short month name. Only the first letter is uppercase (e.g. Sep).

• MMM

  Short month name. All letters are uppercase (e.g. SEP).

• mm

  Month number. Prepend a leading zero to month if the month is less than 10 (e.g. 09).

• m

  Month number. Do not prepend a leading zero to month (e.g. 9).

• dddd

  Long day name. All letters are lowercase (e.g. wednesday).

• Dddd

  Long day name. Only the first letter is uppercase (e.g. Wednesday).

• DDDD

  Long day name. All letters are uppercase (e.g. WEDNESDAY).

• ddd

  Short day name. All letters are lowercase (e.g. wed).

• Ddd

  Short day name. Only the first letter is uppercase (e.g. Wed).

• DDD

  Short day name. All letters are uppercase (WED).

• dd

  Two-digit day (e.g. 04).

• d

  One-digit day for days below 10 (e.g. 4).

Default value

yyyy-mm-dd

Note

SAP controls only support the date format: yyyy-mm-dd

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