Date Format String:

 <Date:Picture String[-nnn]>   Convert to the English Locale String

 <DATE:Picture String[-nnn]>  Convert to the Current User Locale String

 

BestSync uses the following elements to construct a format picture string. If it uses spaces to separate the elements in the format string, these spaces will appear in the same location in the output string. The letters must be in uppercase or lowercase as shown in the table, for example, "MM" not "mm". Characters in the format string that are enclosed in single quotation marks appear in the same location and unchanged in the output string.

Picture	Meaning
d	Day of month as digits with no leading zero for single-digit days.
dd	Day of month as digits with leading zero for single-digit days.
ddd	Day of week as a three-letter abbreviation.
dddd	Day of week as its full name.
M	Month as digits with no leading zero for single-digit months.
MM	Month as digits with leading zero for single-digit months.
MMM	Month as a three-letter abbreviation.
MMMM	Month as its full name.
y	Year as last two digits, but with no leading zero for years less than 10.
yy	Year as last two digits, but with leading zero for years less than 10.
yyyy	Year represented by full four or five digits, depending on the calendar used. Thai Buddhist and Korean calendars both have five digit years. The "yyyy" pattern will show five digits for these two calendars, and four digits for all other supported calendars.
yyyyy	Identical to "yyyy".
gg	Period/era string.This element is ignored if the date to be formatted does not have an associated era or period string.
Short	Get the short date format.  For example, "4/11/2010" (April 11, 2010)
Long	Get the long date format.  For example, "Sunday, April 11, 2010" (April 11, 2010)
-nnn	Option.  nnn is a number that means the days that will be subtracted from the date.

For example, to get the date string

"Wed, Aug 31 94"

Please use the following picture string:

<date:ddd',' MMM dd yy>

For example, to get the date string of yesterday:

<date:MMddyyyy-1>

 <Time:Picture String[-nnn]>    Convert to the English Locale String

 <TIME:Picture String[-nnn]>  Convert to the Current User Locale String

Picture	Meaning
h	Hours with no leading zero for single-digit hours; 12-hour clock.
hh	Hours with leading zero for single-digit hours; 12-hour clock.
H	Hours with no leading zero for single-digit hours; 24-hour clock.
HH	Hours with leading zero for single-digit hours; 24-hour clock.
m	Minutes with no leading zero for single-digit minutes.
mm	Minutes with leading zero for single-digit minutes.
s	Seconds with no leading zero for single-digit seconds.
ss	Seconds with leading zero for single-digit seconds.
t	One character time marker string, such as A or P.
tt	Multiple characters time marker string, such as AM or PM.
-nnn	Option.  nnn is a number that means the minutes day number that will be subtracted from the time.

For example, to get the time string

"11:29:40 PM"

Please use the following picture string:

<time:hh':'mm':'ss tt>