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	<title>formatDateAdvanced</title>
	<para>
		Transform Time/ Date representation. Formats a date with a free form pattern. Uses SimpleDateFormat patterns.
 	</para>
 	<para>
	 The following pattern letters are defined (all other characters from 'A' to 'Z' and from 'a' to 'z' are reserved):
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    Letter	Date or Time Component	Presentation	Examples
    G	Era designator	Text	AD
    y	Year	Year	1996; 96
    M	Month in year	Month	July; Jul; 07
    w	Week in year	Number	27
    W	Week in month	Number	2
    D	Day in year	Number	189
    d	Day in month	Number	10
    F	Day of week in month	Number	2
    E	Day in week	Text	Tuesday; Tue
    a	Am/pm marker	Text	PM
    H	Hour in day (0-23)	Number	0
    k	Hour in day (1-24)	Number	24
    K	Hour in am/pm (0-11)	Number	0
    h	Hour in am/pm (1-12)	Number	12
    m	Minute in hour	Number	30
    s	Second in minute	Number	55
    S	Millisecond	Number	978
    z	Time zone	General time zone	Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
    Z	Time zone	RFC 822 time zone	-0800
	]]></programlisting>
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