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Date and time formatting

In your document templates and email templates often date and time fields are used. You can customize the appearance of these date and time fields. For example, if you want to display a date as 22/08/2018 instead of 22 August 2018, you can do this.

A date field typically looks like «AppDate» (or something similar) in your templates. A time field typically looks like «AppTime» (or something similar). These fields are called merge fields.

Merge fields in document templates

To customize the appearance of a date or time field in your document templates, you need to update the merge field, add a backslash (\), immediately followed by the relevant code.

For example, by default «AppDate» formats to 22 August 2018, but «AppDate \dd/MM/yyyy» will format to 22/08/2018. This is achieved by the addition of \dd/MM/yyyy.

You can find more information on updating merge fields in document templates through the links below:

Managing document templates
Merge fields in Word for Mac
Merge fields in Word for Windows

Merge fields in email templates

To customize the appearance of date and time fields in your email templates (you can access it via Template Settings > Email templates), you simply need to add a backslash (\) followed by the relevant code in the merge field.

Codes that can be used

Code Description
d Represents the day of the month as a number from 1 through 31. A single-digit day is formatted without a leading zero
dd Represents the day of the month as a number from 01 through 31. A single-digit day is formatted with a leading zero
ddd Represents the abbreviated name of the day of the week (Mon, Tues, Wed etc)
dddd Represents the full name of the day of the week (Monday, Tuesday etc)
M Month number
MM Month number with leading zero
MMM Abbreviated Month Name (e.g. Dec)
MMMM Full month name (e.g. December)
yy Year, leading zero (e.g. 2018 would be 18)
yyyy Year, (e.g. 2018 would be 2018)
h 12-hour clock hour (e.g. 7)
hh 12-hour clock, with a leading 0 (e.g. 07)
H 24-hour clock hour (e.g. 19)
HH 24-hour clock hour, with a leading 0 (e.g. 19)
m Minutes
mm Minutes with a leading zero
tt AM / PM (e.g. AM or PM)
' Represents a quoted string (apostrophe). Displays the literal value of any string between two apostrophe (') characters (e.g. 'de' will be formatted to de)

Formatting of the codes and their appearance

Code formatting Displayed as
MM/dd/yyyy 08/22/2018
dd/MM/yyyy 22/08/2018
dd.MM.yyyy 22.08.2018
dd-MM-yyyy 22-08-2018
dd MMMM yyyy 22 August 2018
MMMM dd, yyyy August 22, 2018
dddd, dd MMMM yyyy Wednesday, 22 August 2018
ddd, dd MMMM yyyy Wed, 22 August 2018
ddd, dd MMM yyyy Wed, 22 Aug 2018
ddd, dd MMM yyyy Wed, 22 Aug 2018
HH:mm 06:30
hh:mm tt 06:30 AM
H:mm 6:30
h:mm tt 6:30 AM
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