Formatting Date & Time

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Formatting the Date and Time is useful to anyone who has customers in multiple nations and regions because the Date & Time formatting differs from one place to another. On Elegant Bots, you may change the Date & Time Format depending on your requirements.

Follow the steps below to know how to format the date and time for your use case:

Step 1: Go to the flow that you want to edit.

Step 2: Among many options on the builder choose the “Action” option and select “Format Date/Date & Time” on the list.

Step 3: Now select the option on the builder to:

Select the Date Custom Field that contains the date you want to format.

On the next field enter the format of the date and time you need to change from the default (For example, if you want to display the date and time as “23-01-2022; 02-00 a.m” then you need to enter the format field (without quotation) as “d-m-Y; h-i a”. Please refer to the table below to know more about the different parameters).

Then, create a new custom field or select the existing one to store the changed date & time format on the “Save the formatted date to” field. In addition, you can choose the time zone of this formatted date & time for the page (or) user’s time zone.

Table explaining the parameters of the Date & Time Formats: