Time Formatting
The default time format is defined by the lexicon key baja:timeFormat. But it may be selectively overridden by users. To change the time format in the Workbench use General Options under Tools | Options. Use the User.facets property to change it for browser users.
Niagara' time format uses a simple pattern language:
| Pattern | Description |
|---|---|
| YY | Two digit year |
| YYYY | Four digit year |
| M | One digit month |
| MM | Two digit month |
| MMM | Abbreviated month name |
| D | One digit day of month |
| DD | Two digit day of month |
| h | One digit 12 hour |
| hh | Two digit 12 hour |
| H | One digit 24 hour |
| HH | Two digit 24 hour |
| mm | Two digit minutes |
| ss | Seconds (and milliseconds if applicable) |
| a | AM/PM marker |
| z | Timezone |
| anything else | Character literal |
In addition to the time format configured by the user, developers may customize the resolution via the following facets:
BFacets.SHOW_TIME
BFacets.SHOW_DATE
BFacets.SHOW_SECONDS
BFacets.SHOW_MILLISECONDS
BFacets.SHOW_TIME_ZONE
To programmatically format a time using this infrastructure use the BAbsTime or BTime APIs.
If something is automated by the station, then it will use the station's native time format. So this would depend on the platform locale settings, and then the lexicon entry for baja:timeFormat in that locale.
This can be found also in the documentation (ctrl+L in WorkBench): module://docDeveloper/doc/localization.html