Available for: Content Management Server, Template Engine
Task: Formats the entered date. The date and time are converted to the time zone of the server.
Additional information: The value from the
validDateTimeOutputFormats dictionary to which the value of the key
userManagement.preferences.dateTimeOutputFormatName points is used as
the output format. If the subcommand is executed via userConfig, the
user-specific value of dateTimeOutputFormatName is used.
Syntax:
systemConfig formatDateTime dateTime
Function parameters:
dateTime is the date to be formatted. It should
be entered in the form YYYYMMDDhhmmss . If the date has too few
digits, the year figure will be filled in with zeros, and the month and day
figure with 01 and hours, minutes and seconds with zeros. Extra
figures will be ignored.Return value if successful: the formatted time stamp (string)
Necessary permissions (CM only): none
Example:
CM>systemConfig formatDateTime 20000115180001 15.01.2000 19:00 MET