org.enblom.time
Interface DayDateFormatter

public interface DayDateFormatter

Provides methods for formatting a DayDate object as a human-readable string.

The following notation will be used:

YYYY:	The year written with four digits, e.g. 1066, 1969, 2011
YY:	The year written with two digits, e.g. 66, 69, 11
MM:	The month written with two digits, e.g. 02 for February and 10 for October
DD:	The day of the month written with two digits, e.g. 02, 15, 31

There are three standard formatters: ISO, EUR and US, provided by Time.iso(), Time.eur() and Time.us(), respectively. The ISO formatter formats timestamps according to the ISO-8601 standard, the EUR formatter formats timestamps according to some de-facto European standard, and the US formatter formats timestamps according to US standards. The main difference between how these these formatters format dates is summarized here:

ISO:	YYYY-MM-DD, YYYYMMDD
EUR:	DD.MM.YYYY, DDMMYYYY
US:	MM/DD/YYYY, MMDDYYYY

Author:

Andreas Enblom

Method Summary

String	formatCompactDate() Formats the date as a compact string, with no delimiters between year, month and date.
String	formatCompactShortDate() Formats the date as a compact string, with no delimiters between year, month and date.
String	formatDate() Formats the date as a string, with delimiters between year, month and day.
String	formatShortDate() Formats the date in a shorter way.

Method Detail

formatCompactDate

String formatCompactDate()

Formats the date as a compact string, with no delimiters between year, month and date. The year is written with four digits.

Formatter	Format
ISO	YYYYMMDD
EUR	DDMMYYYY
US	MMDDYYYY

Returns:

The date, formatted as a string.

formatCompactShortDate

String formatCompactShortDate()

Formats the date as a compact string, with no delimiters between year, month and date. The year is written with two digits.

Formatter	Format
ISO	YYMMDD
EUR	DDMMYY
US	MMDDYY

Returns:

The date, formatted as a string.

formatDate

String formatDate()

Formats the date as a string, with delimiters between year, month and day. The year is written with four digits.

Formatter	Format
ISO	YYYY-MM-DD
EUR	DD.MM.YYYY
US	MM/DD/YYYY

Returns:

The date, formatted as a string.

formatShortDate

String formatShortDate()

Formats the date in a shorter way. The year is written with two digits.

Formatter	Format
ISO	YY-MM-DD
EUR	DD.MM.YY
US	MM/DD/YY

Returns:

The date, formatted as a string.