Apex中的日期格式转换

Question

I have a date item ' Order_TCD' in the form.

My requirement is when user enters Order_TCD it should be in the format:

DD-MON-YYYY HH:MIPM, 

But the data in the report should appear in the format DD-MON-YY.

Answer 1

DD-MON-YYYY HH:MIPM

If Order_TCD is DATE data type, then while inserting the row you need to use TO_DATE and required format mask . You must specify the user to enter the date in the format DD-MON-YYYY HH:MIPM . And you need to handle it as:

TO_DATE('05-MAY-2015 11:05AM','DD-MON-YYYY HH:MIPM')

But the data in the report should appear in the format DD-MON-YY.

To display the date in your desired format, you need to use TO_CHAR .

For example,

TO_CHAR(Order_TCD, 'DD-MON-YY')

Answer 2

To set the format mask on the (datepicker!) item, simply edit the item and go to the "Settings" section. You can enter the format mask there.

To display with another format mask in the report, you can set the format mask in the column attributes. Example here for an interactive report.

You could also apply the mask on the column in the source SQL of course. Also note that you can set a global application date format mask in the globalization options of the application.