When a date passes, the system formats it and returns a String with the value of the date. It exist a correspondence with the standard type of Java java.text.SimpleDateFormat (see the link below).

1 date.format

<date.format
    format='format'
    lang='lang'
    country='country'
    timezone='timezone'
    type='type'
>
    <date /> *
</date.format>

Attributes
Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
Aformat	String			user_format	Date format, for example dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss z. If the format is not indicated, the user's format is used.
Alang	String			user_lang	Language to form the Locale to the parser function. If the format is not indicated, the user's format is used. The language is necessary when the used month's format is alphanumeric (MMM) for example "ene".
Acountry	String				In case the attribute lang is informed, the language of the contry of application can be optionally specified. Differents contries that uses the same language could have differents numerical representations. This code is written in lowercase, with two letters as define the norm ISO-3166. It can be founded a complete list of this codes on several internet sites.
Atimezone	String				Time zone, for example America/Mexico_City.
Atype	String				This field will only be considered if the format field is not informed. It indicates the standard type of format in which will appear the date. The possible types which will cause a different effect according to the local format defined (by default or the indicated format in the fields lang y country) are: short: 12.13.52 o 3:30pm medium: Jan 12, 1952 long: January 12, 1952 or 3:30:32pm

Arguments
Name	Type	Required	Unique	Nullable	Description
Edate	date				Date which should be format.

Returns
Type	Description
String	Returns the transformed date.

Ver tambien

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/DateFormat.html

Example

Get the current date applying an explicit string formart.

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<xsql-script name='date_format_sample1'>
    <body>
        <set name='var'>
            <date.format format='dd-MM-yyyy'><date.today /></date.format>
        </set>
        <println><var /></println>
    </body>
</xsql-script>

Example

Get the current date applying the reoresentation format of user's date.

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<xsql-script name='date_format_sample2'>
   <body>
       <set name='userdateformat'><system.user.getDateFormatPattern/></set>
       <set name='var'>
           <date.format format='#userdateformat'><date.today /></date.format>
       </set>
       <println><var /></println>
   </body>

</xsql-script>

Example

Application of lang and country. Difference between United Kingdom and India for the english.

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<xsql-script name='dateformat_sample3'>
   <body>
       <println>
       <date.format lang='en' country='GB' type='long'>
           <date.current />
       </date.format>
       <date.format lang='en' country='IN' type='long'>
           <date.current />
       </date.format>
       </println>
   </body>

</xsql-script>

Example

Comparation between the predefined formats allowed

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<xsql-script name='dateformat_sample4'>
   <body>
       <println>
       <date.format  type='short'>
           <date.current />
       </date.format>
       <date.format type='medium'>
           <date.current />
       </date.format>->
       <date.format type='long'>
           <date.current />
       </date.format>
       </println>
   </body>

</xsql-script>