formatDate

The format of the date to be returned. Typically : yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss

Example

console(formatDate("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX",timestamp()+24*3600*1000))  // -> 2022-07-22T09:36:04+01:00

Symbol	Meaning	Presentation	Example
G	era designator	Text	AD
y	year	Number	2009
M	month in year	Text & Number	July & 07
d	day in month	Number	10
h	hour in am/pm (1-12)	Number	12
H	hour in day (0-23)	Number	0
m	minute in hour	Number	30
s	second in minute	Number	55
S	millisecond	Number	978
E	day in week	Text	Tuesday
D	day in year	Number	189
F	day of week in month	Number	2 (2nd Wed in July)
u	day of the week in number	Number	3 (1 = Monday, 7 = Sunday)
w	week in year	Number	27
W	week in month	Number	2
a	am/pm marker	Text	PM
k	hour in day (1-24)	Number	24
K	hour in am/pm (0-11)	Number	0
z	time zone	Text	Pacific Standard Time
escape for text Delimiter (none)	single quote	Literal (ex:yyyy 'year')

See also

nowFormat
timestamp
transformDate

Returns the timestamp in milliseconds
The timestamp counts the number of milliseconds elapsed since January 1, 1970.

Default:"en". The region corresponding to the desired format (useful especially for day or month texts). Language code (ex: "en", "fr", "it", "de", etc.)

Default:false. If true, it returns the Java SimpleDateFormat object.