You can specify a format for text items that indicates time (Timer or Stopwatch) or Date (DateTime).
Time formatting
Time format is set as "hh:mm:ss". Here is a list of all possible settings:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| h | Hours with no leading zero for single-digit hours; 12-hour clock |
| hh | Hours with leading zero for single-digit hours; 12-hour clock |
| H | Hours with no leading zero for single-digit hours; 24-hour clock |
| HH | Hours with leading zero for single-digit hours; 24-hour clock |
| m | Minutes with no leading zero for single-digit minutes |
| mm | Minutes with leading zero for single-digit minutes |
| s | Seconds with no leading zero for single-digit seconds |
| ss | Seconds with leading zero for single-digit seconds |
| t | One character time marker string, such as A or P |
| tt | Multi-character time marker string, such as AM or PM |
Date formatting
Date format is set as "yyyy/MM/dd". Here are the tables with possible settings:
The following table defines the format types used to represent days.
| Format type | Description |
|---|---|
| d | Day of the month as digits without leading zeros for single-digit days. |
| dd | Day of the month as digits with leading zeros for single-digit days. |
| ddd | Abbreviated day of the week, for example, "Mon" in English (United States). |
| dddd | Day of a week. |
The following table defines the format types used to represent months.
| Format type | Description |
|---|---|
| M | Month as digits without leading zeros for single-digit months. |
| MM | Month as digits with leading zeros for single-digit months. |
| MMM | Abbreviated month, for example, "Nov" in English (United States). |
| MMMM | Month, for example, "November" for English (United States), and "Noviembre" for Spanish (Spain). |
The following table defines the format types used to represent years.
| Format type | Description |
|---|---|
| y | Year represented only by the last digit. |
| yy | Year represented only by the last two digits. A leading zero is added for single-digit years. |
| yyyy | Year represented by a full four or five digits, depending on the calendar used. Thai Buddhist and Korean calendars have five-digit years. The "yyyy" pattern shows five digits for these two calendars, and four digits for all other supported calendars. Calendars that have single-digit or two-digit years, such as for the Japanese Emperor era, are represented differently. A single-digit year is represented with a leading zero, for example, "03". A two-digit year is represented with two digits, for example, "13". No additional leading zeros are displayed. |
| yyyyy | Behaves identically to "yyyy". |
The following table defines the format types used to represent a period or era.
| Format type | Description |
|---|---|
| g, gg | Period/era string. The "g" and "gg" format pictures in a date string are ignored if there is no associated era or period string. |
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