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# Monitors: Date format

# Date format

Some input fields allow a display date to be formatted as desired. For example, a date can display only the day and month, including the time in 12-hour format. To specify how the date should look, use the **formatting symbols** `h`, `H`, `m`, `M`, `s`, `d`, and `y`.

![Example date format input field highlighted in red](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/91fefd8b4b0ac000/screenshot-2022-05-16-at-12034_1lur99m.png)

## Date entry

* d: Day one-digit (1), dd: Day two-digit (01)
* M: month one-digit (1), MM: month two-digit (01), MMM: month by name (January).
* y: Year four digits (2019), yy: Year two digits (19).

## Time specification

* h: hours one-digit in 12-hour format (1), hh: hours two-digit in 12-hour format (01)
* H: hours one-digit in 24-hour format, HH: hours two-digit in 24-hour format (13)
* m: minutes one-digit, mm: minutes two-digit
* s: Seconds one-digit, ss: Seconds two-digit

## Embed texts in the date format

Note that the characters `h`, `H`, `m`, `M`, `s`, `d`, and `y` are interpreted as formatting symbols only. If you want to embed a text like `hours to lunch` in the date format, you have to put it in simple quotation marks: `H `hours to lunch`.

## Examples

* Birthday (e.g. 15.01.): `dd.MM.`
* Month and year only (e.g. 02.2022): `MM.yyyy`
* Month only, but written out (e.g. January): `MMM`
* Date, but year abbreviated (e.g. 15.01.98): `dd.MM.yy`
* Date and time (e.g. 15.01.1998 at 13:37): `dd.MM.yyyy 'at' HH:mm`
* Time in 24-hour format (e.g. 13:37): `HH:mm`
* Time in _hours - minutes - seconds_ format (e.g. 23 - 59 - 1): `H - m - s`
* Time in _seconds - minutes - hours_ format (e.g. 1 - 59 - 23): `s - m - H`
* Seconds display (e.g. 41 seconds): `s 'seconds'`


Further formatting options can be found [here](https://angular.io/api/common/DatePipe).