Editing and formatting a report : Formatting data strings : Applying a date-and-time format

Applying a date-and-time format

Interactive Viewer provides common formats to display date-and-time data. You can, for example, display dates as January 19, 2008 11:00:00 AM PST; Jan 19, 2008; or 1/19/08, and so on. This section describes how to select standard and custom date-and-time formats.

How to apply a date-and-time format

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From the right-arrow menu, choose FormatFormat Data.
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On Date column format, select one of the formats from the drop-down list. You can select a standard format or define a custom format. The standard and custom formats are described in the next sections.