Email date placeholder formats

BDP uses the standard PHP Date function to create dates, which enables you to format the date in the way that you choose.

For example, an email template contains the following date placeholder:

{{ bdDate (action.actionDate,"l, jS F Y") 1 }} at {{ bdDate (action.actionDate,"H:i") 1 }}

This will display, for example, “Sunday, 5th August 2014” at “09:45”

The BDP placeholder must retain the exact formatting above, however you may change the items inside the quotation marks (” “) as you wish according to the standard PHP time placeholders.

The full set of available date placeholders:

DAYS
d – day of the month 2 digits (01-31)
j – day of the month (1-31)
D – 3 letter day (Mon – Sun)
l – full name of day (Monday – Sunday)
N – 1=Monday, 2=Tuesday, etc (1-7)
S – suffix for date (st, nd, rd)
w – 0=Sunday, 1=Monday (0-6)
z – day of the year (1=365)

WEEK
W – week of the year (1-52)

MONTH
F – Full name of month (January – December)
m – 2 digit month number (01-12)
n – month number (1-12)
M – 3 letter month (Jan – Dec)
t – Days in the month (28-31)

YEAR
L – leap year (0 no, 1 yes)
o – ISO-8601 year number (Ex. 1979, 2006)
Y – four digit year (Ex. 1979, 2006)
y – two digit year (Ex. 79, 06)

TIME
a – am or pm
A – AM or PM
B – Swatch Internet time (000 – 999)
g – 12 hour (1-12)
G – 24 hour c (0-23)
h – 2 digit 12 hour (01-12)
H – 2 digit 24 hour (00-23)
i – 2 digit minutes (00-59)
s 0 2 digit seconds (00-59)

OTHER e – timezone (Ex: GMT, CST)
I – daylight savings (1=yes, 0=no)
O – offset GMT (Ex: 0200)
Z – offset in seconds (-43200 – 43200)
r – full RFC 2822 formatted date