While these covered a wide variety of cases, we’d heard feedback from many of you that you wanted the ability to build your own formats mixing just components that you desired. The new ‘custom’ option gives you full control over your format string.
Note that this is a subset of the format strings that are available in the Rule Engine expressions. The various ‘tokens’ that you see in parentheses next to each selection in the drop-down are available and can also be found in the documentation.
I’m trying to get an abbreviated day of the week using ‘ddd’ but it’s not working. It’s showing “10” for the day instead of “Feb” for an abbreviated month. Am I doing it wrong or is it a bug?
That’s expected as ddd is not supported format. Make sure to review the format documentation linked in the post above for the list of supported format tokens.
I had hoped that there was a way to show the name of the day in caps, e.g., “FRIDAY” instead of “Friday”. I tried Friday (DDDD) but that didn’t do it. I’ve concluded that it’s not possible to accomplish this. Am I correct?
Recently, the am pm is incorrect (for at least a few hours) when I place a “a” I have a separate am / pm marker on my clock for spacing on one of my dashboards.
Question here. If I have a variable that keeps time in from the last time on of the rules ran and was saved as now(). I want to show this in the super tile, do I need to create another variable with the format time, or somehow I can format it “inline”. I was trying to use custom units for that, but I guess it is not for this…
Right, the Date / Time feature from this thread is basically a custom clock display.
You would need to format it in the variable directly. Keep in mind that available variable types are Text, Numeric, and True/False. So while you could store your date/time as a numeric unix timestamp or as a specially formatted string, that’s ultimately just getting stored as a Number or Text – there’s not a special variable type for date/time and thus the numeric and text variable types don’t have special handling for date formatting in dashboards.
