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Unicode Date And Time Cheatsheet
 
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If you’ve ever wanted to use a custom date format in Shortcuts, you will have seen that you need to use the patterns documented in the (rather intimidating) Unicode Technical Standards #35 .

I’ve laid out a simpler cheat-sheet version of common patterns you may want to use below. You can also download this PDF version for offline viewing.


DATES

Symbol Example Notes
Week Days E Tue
EEEE Tuesday
EEEEE T
EEEEEE Tu
Day Of Week e 2 Start of week according to local calendar
c 2 Monday as start of week
Day Of Month d 1
Day Of Year D 342
Week Of Year w 27
Day Of Week In Month F 2 2nd Wed in July
Week Of Month W 3
Month M 09
MMM Sept
MMMM September
MMMMM S
Year y 2019
yy 19
Quarter Q 02
QQQ Q2
QQQQ 2nd Quarter

TIMES

Symbol Example Notes
Period a AM AM or PM
Hours h 9 12-hour clock
hh 09
H 21 24-hour clock
HH 21
Minutes m 6
mm 06
Seconds s 8
ss 08
Fractional Seconds S 3 Example is rounded fraction after the decimal point (3.247 seconds)
SS 35
SSS 347
Time Zones z BST Specific non-location format
zzzz British Summer Time
Z +0100 Localised format
ZZZZ GMT+01:00
ZZZZZ +01:00
O GMT+1
OOOO GMT+01:00
v PDT Generic non-location format
vvvv Pacific Daylight Time
V gblon Timezone ID (short)
VV Europe/London Timezone ID (long)
VVV London Exemplar City
VVVV United Kingdom Time Generic location format