Predefined Date/Time Formats (Format Function) 

The following table identifies the predefined date and time format names. These may be used by name as the style argument for the Format function:

Format Name	Description
General Date, or G	Displays a date and/or time. For example, 4/3/93 05:34 PM. Date display is determined by your system's LocaleID value.
Long Date, Medium Date, or D	Displays a date according to your locale's long date format.
Short Date, or d	Displays a date using your locale's short date format.
Long Time, Medium Time, or T	Displays a time using your locale's long time format; typically includes hours, minutes, seconds.
Short Time, or t	Displays a time using your locale's short time format.
f	Displays the long date and short time according to your locale's format.
F	Displays the long date and long time according to your locale's format.
g	Displays the short date and short time according to your locale's format.
M, m	Displays the month and the day of a date.
R, r	Formats the date and time as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
s	Formats the date and time as a sortable index.
u	Formats the date and time as a GMT sortable index.
U	Formats the date and time with the long date and long time as GMT.
Y, y	Formats the date as the year and month.

Requirements

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualBasic

Module: Strings

Assembly: Visual Basic Runtime Library (in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll)

See Also

Reference

String Manipulation Summary
Conversion Summary
Format Function
Predefined Numeric Formats (Format Function)
User-Defined Date/Time Formats (Format Function)