Tokens for date/time parsing

Date/time parsing tokens are special combinations of letters you can use to read and extract date/time data. The following tables list the tokens you can use to parse data in your functionsFunctions you can use in Boost.space Integrator - create, update, delete, get, search.:

Year, month, and day tokens

Input Example Description

YYYY 2014 4 or 2 digit year

YY 14 2 digit year

Y -25 Year with any number of digits and sign

Q

1..4

Quarter of year

	Note
	Sets month to first month in quarter

M MM 1..12 Month number

MMM MMMM Jan..December Month name

D DD 1..31 Day of month

Do 1st..31st Day of month with ordinal numbers

DDD DDDD 1..365 Day of year

X 1410715640.579 Unix timestamp

x 1410715640579 Unix ms timestamp

Week year, week, and weekday tokens

Input	Example	Description
`ddd dddd`	`Mon...Sunday`	Day name
`GGGG`	`2014`	ISO 4 digit week year
`GG`	`14`	ISO 2 digit week year
`W WW`	`1..53`	ISO week of year
`E`	`1..7`	ISO day of week

Hour, minute, second, millisecond, and offset tokens

Input	Example	Description
`H HH`	`0..23`	Hours (24 hour time)
`h hh`	`1..12`	Hours (12 hour time used with `a A`)
`k kk`	`1..24`	Hours (24 hour time from 1 to 24)
`a A`	`am pm`	Post or ante meridiem (Note the one character `a p` are also considered valid)
`m mm`	`0..59`	Minutes
`s ss`	`0..59`	Seconds
`S SS SSS`	`0..999`	Fractional seconds
`Z ZZ`	`+12:00`	Offset from UTC as `+-HH:mm`, `+-HHmm`, or `Z`