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FormatDateTime

unit
Sysutils
category
date/time routines

declaration
function FormatDateTime(const Fmt: string; Value: TDateTime): string;

description
Formats a TDateTime value to a string.

FormatDateTime uses the format specified by the Fmt parameter. For the supported format specifiers go see Delphi Help files.

example
var s: string;
    d: TDateTime;
...
d:=Now; // today + current time

s:=FormatDateTime('dddd',d);
// s:=Wednesday 
s:=FormatDateTime('"Today is " dddd " minute " nn',d)
// s:=Today is Wednesday minute 24

in real code

see also
Now, DateToStr, Date/Time and other International Settings


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