Date Time Formatter
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The Date Time Formatter Node outputs a date and/or time in a specified format. By using a combination of special format characters, many different date/time formats can be created. This is used mostly for localization, however, it could also be used for formatting based on user preferences.
For generating customized formats for the date and time, format strings are used. For more information about format strings, please see the format strings section below.
Scope: Project, Scene, Function, Prefab.
Default Timezone
Drop-down
The timezone that will be used, which is an offset of the UTC.
Default DST
Drop-down
Determines whether Daylight Savings Time is taken into account.
Format Examples
Drop-down
A selection of pre-defined formats. By selecting Custom, you can create a custom formatting string.
Custom Format
String
The format string which will determine how the date and/or time is represented.
Pulse Input (►)
Pulse
A standard input Pulse, to trigger the execution of the Node.
UTC Unix (ms)
Int
The UTC in Unix format.
Timezone Offset (ms)
Int
The time offset in milliseconds.
DST
Bool
Determines whether Daylight Savings Time is taken into account.
Format
String
The format string which will determine how the date and/or time is represented.
Pulse Output (►)
Pulse
A standard output Pulse, to move onto the next Node along the Logic Branch, once this Node has finished its execution.
Output
String
The formatted date/time.
Format strings are used for generating customized formats for the date and time. To use this, the Custom option has to be chosen in the Format Examples Attribute and then the format string is either given in the Custom Format Attribute or in the Format Input Socket.
This section shows first an example of a customized format string and its corresponding output, and then it gives a list of the format characters, which are the characters that compose a format string.
Setting the format string
will generate an output that looks like:
Format characters are the characters that compose a format string. The following table shows the most important format characters:
Format character
Description
Example
d
Day of the month, including leading zeros
01-31
j
Day of the month, no leading zeros
1-31
l
Day of the week, full name
Monday-Sunday
D
Day of the week, three letter name
Mon-Sun
m
Month number, including leading zeros
01-12
n
Month number, no leading zeros
1-12
F
Month, full name
January-December
M
Month, three letter name
Jan-Dec
Y
Year, four digits
1967, 2005
y
Year, last two digits
67, 05
a
Meridiem indicator, in lowercase
am, pm
A
Meridiem indicator, in uppercase
AM, PM
g
Hour in 12-hour format, no leading zeros
1-12
h
Hour in 12-hour format, including leading zeros
01-12
G
Hour in 24-hour format, no leading zeros
0-23
H
Hour in 24-hour format, including leading zeros
00-23
i
Minutes
00-59
s
Seconds
00-59
T
Timezone abbreviation
EST, MDT
c
ISO 8601 standard
2022-09-14T10:09:34-03:00
r
RFC 2822 standard
Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:10:07 -0300
Formatting Date and Time on WordPress.org.
PHP: date - Manual on PHP.net.
UTC - The World's Time Standard on timeanddate.com.