{"id":6,"date":"2019-12-16T08:40:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T08:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/07\/date-display-format-tricks\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T15:33:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T15:33:51","slug":"date-display-format-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/date-display-format-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Date Display Format Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/Email-Tools\/product\/save-as-pdf\/\">Save As PDF<\/a>, <a href=\"\/Email-Tools\/product\/save-as-pdf-pro\/\">Save As PDF Pro<\/a>, <a href=\"\/Email-Tools\/product\/attachment-save\">Attachment Save<\/a>, <a href=\"\/Email-Tools\/product\/attachment-save-pro\/\">Attachment Save Pro<\/a>, <a href=\"\/Email-Tools\/product\/rename-attachments\/\">Rename Attachments<\/a> and <a href=\"\/Email-Tools\/product\/quick-text-hotkeys\/\">Quick Text Hotkeys<\/a> all allow you to specify a date\/time format. \u00a0The add-in provides a drop down list that allows you to select a pre-defined date format. \u00a0<em>What most people don&#8217;t realize is that they can type directly in that box to specify a custom format<\/em>. \u00a0I get a lot of people asking how they can get the format to display in a specific way.\u00a0 I hope that the Outlook date display format tips and tricks provided here will help answer your questions. Here is a list of formats that can be used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0d &#8211; day of the month, no leading zero (1-30 (or 31))<\/li>\n<li>dd &#8211; day of month, with leading zero (01-30 (or 31))<\/li>\n<li>ddd &#8211; day of the week, short form (like Mon, Tue, Wed)<\/li>\n<li>dddd &#8211; day of the week, long form (like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)<\/li>\n<li>w &#8211; week of the year, no leading zero (1-51)<\/li>\n<li>ww &#8211; week of the year, with leading zero (01-51)<\/li>\n<li>M &#8211; month, no leading zero (1-12)<\/li>\n<li>MM &#8211; month, with leading zero (01-12)<\/li>\n<li>MMM &#8211; full month name, short (like Oct, Nov, Dec)<\/li>\n<li>MMMM &#8211; full month name, long (like October, November, December)<\/li>\n<li>y &#8211; day of the year<\/li>\n<li>yy &#8211; two digit year<\/li>\n<li>yyyy &#8211; four digit year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>h &#8211; hours<\/li>\n<li>hh &#8211; hours with leading zero<\/li>\n<li>m &#8211; minutes<\/li>\n<li>mm &#8211; minutes with leading zero<\/li>\n<li>s &#8211; seconds<\/li>\n<li>ss &#8211; seconds with leading zero<\/li>\n<li>AMPM &#8211; Appends &#8220;AM&#8221; or &#8220;PM&#8221; to the time; if this is left off, you get military time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are a few examples of how to use these formats for \u00a0December 1, 2022 at 1:05 PM:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space: pre;\">m\/d\/yy -&gt; 12\/1\/22<\/span><\/li>\n<li>h:nn AMPM -&gt; 1:05 PM<\/li>\n<li>dddd, mmmm d, yyyy -&gt; Thursday, December 1, 2022<\/li>\n<li>h:nn -&gt; 13:05<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want even more format options?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/dotnet\/standard\/base-types\/custom-date-and-time-format-strings\">See the complete list of date\/time formats directly from Microsoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This trick really comes in handy for our European customers trying to get the time and date in a format they are used to. \u00a0This allows great flexibility to the formats for use and provides a way to display the information in just about any way you can think of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save As PDF, Save As PDF Pro, Attachment Save, Attachment Save Pro, Rename Attachments and Quick Text Hotkeys all allow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[26,1878,54,2267,58,1711],"class_list":{"0":"post-6","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips","7":"tag-attachment-save","8":"tag-attachment-save-pro","9":"tag-quick-text-hotkeys","10":"tag-rename-attachments","11":"tag-save-as-pdf","12":"tag-save-as-pdf-pro"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}