Applies to
Bridge utilities: Date/Time
Parse, validate, manipulate, and format human readable or machine readable dates and/or times in Bridge.
There are five high-level operations you can achieve using this extension: Getting, Setting, Checking, Comparing, and Formatting dates and/or times. Dates and times are represented by a structured date/time object; while durations (differences between two dates) are represented using duration-object. Both can be passed from one module to another.
For example, if you want to get the start of the current business quarter in the standard ISO-8601 format, you can:
- First, get the current time using the Current Date/Time Module.
- Next, pass the output to the Round Date/Time Module to set the date to the start of the quarter.
- Finally, use the Format Date/Time Module to output the Date/Time object into a formatted string – in this case ISO-8601.
The Date/Time utility contains the following modules:
Check Date/Time
Check an input date against specified conditions and route your template accordingly.
Compare Date/Time
Compare two parsed date objects resulting in the absolute difference between them.
Current Date/Time
Returns the current date/time into a structured Date object that you can manipulate or format.
Format Date/Time
Formats the output of another module to give a human readable form.
Manipulate Date/Time
Add or subtract a unit of time from a parsed date object.
Parse Date/Time
Parses an input into a structured Date/Time that you can manipulate for format. This module can parse human readable dates, ISO-8601, RFC 2822, Unix timestamps and more formats.
Round Date/Time
Returns the start or end of a Date/Time object of unit in time.