Date Format

The Date Format action node is used to reformat a date input into another specified format.

This node is typically used after a Request Input node, where a user is required to provide a date or an API call where a date is returned.

If the date was formatted without exceptions, the action node will return "Yes". Else it will return "No", including parse exceptions.

For example, if a user enters a date in yyyy-MM-dd format and we want to convert it into dd-MM-yyyy format, you can use the Date Format node. After a successful conversion, the node will return a "Yes" response. If the conversion failed, the node will return a "No" response.

Setup of a Date Format node

Example flow containing Date Format node

Examples

The table below lists the common letters that can be used to specify the date format patterns in Chat Flow:

Letter	Date or Time Component	Examples
y	Year	1996; 96
Y	Week year	2009; 09
M	Month in year (context sensitive)	July; Jul; 07
L	Month in year (standalone form)	July; Jul; 07
w	Week in year	27
W	Week in month	2
D	Day in year	189
d	Day in month	10
F	Day of week in month	2
E	Day name in week	Tuesday; Tue
u	Day number of week (1 = Monday, ..., 7 = Sunday)	1
a	Am/pm marker	PM
H	Hour in day (0-23)	0
k	Hour in day (1-24)	24
K	Hour in am/pm (0-11)	0
h	Hour in am/pm (1-12)	12
m	Minute in hour	30
s	Second in minute	55
S	Millisecond	978
z	Timezone	Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
Z	Timezone	-08:00
X	Timezone	-08; -08:00; -08:00