# formatDateAdvanced

Transform Time/ Date representation. Formats a date with a free form pattern. Uses SimpleDateFormat patterns.

The following pattern letters are defined (all other characters from 'A' to 'Z' and from 'a' to 'z' are reserved):

        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