Date Formatting

Use date formatting to convert the Date object to a human readable string. Several methods support standard and custom date formats.

Format	Pattern	Example	Result
d	Short date ("M/d/yyyy" for en-US)	`kendo.toString(new Date(2000, 10, 6), "d")`	11/6/2000
D	Long date (dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy" for en-US)	`kendo.toString(new Date(2000, 10, 6), "D")`	Monday, November 06, 2000
F	Full date/time ("dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm:ss tt" for en-US)	`kendo.toString(new Date(2000, 10, 6), "D")`	Monday, November 06, 2000 12:00:00 AM
g	General date/time (short time) (M/d/yyyy h:mm tt" for en-US)	`kendo.toString(new Date(2000, 10, 6), "g")`	11/6/2000 12:00 AM
G	General date/time (long time) (M/d/yyyy h:mm:ss tt" for en-US)	`kendo.toString(new Date(2000, 10, 6), "G")`	11/6/2000 12:00:00 AM
M/m	Month/day ("MMMM dd" for en-US)	`kendo.toString(new Date(2000, 10, 6), "m")`	November 06
u	Universal sortable date/time ("yyyy'-'MM'-'dd HH':'mm':'ss'Z" for en-US)	`kendo.toString(new Date(2000, 10, 6), "u")`	2000-11-06 00:00:00Z
Y/y	Year/month ("MMMM, yyyy" for en-US)	`kendo.toString(new Date(2000, 10, 6), "y")`	November, 2000

Format	Description	Range/Example
d	Day of the month.	1-31
dd	Day of the month.	01-31
ddd	Abbreviated weekday name.	Sun, Mon, Tue
dddd	Full weekday name.	Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
f	Tenths of seconds in a date and time value.	12:00:10
ff	Hundredths of seconds in a date and time value.	12:00:01
fff	Milliseconds in a date and time value.	12:00:001
M	Month	1-12
MM	Month	01-12
MMM	Abbreviated month name.	Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr
MMMM	Full month name	May, June, July, August
h	Hour in 12-hour clock format.	1-12
hh	Hour in 12-hour clock format.	01-12
H	Hour in 24-hour clock format.	1-23
HH	Hour in 24-hour clock format.	01-23
m	Minutes	0-59
mm	Minutes	00-59
s	Seconds	0-59
ss	Seconds	00-59
tt	AM/PM designation	-