| letter | Date or time element | Show | Examples |
| G | Era designator | Text | AD |
| Y | year | Year | 1996; 96 |
| M | In the month | Month | July; Jul; 07 |
| w | Week number of years | Number | 27 |
| W | The number of weeks of the month | Number | 2 |
| D | Year-round basis heaven number | Number | 189 |
| d | The number of days of the month | Number | 10 |
| F | The week of the month | Number | 2 |
| E | Days of the week | Text | Tuesday; Tue |
| a | Am / pm marker | Text | PM |
| H | The number of hours of the day (0-23) | Number | 0 |
| k | The number of hours of the day (1-24) | Number | 24 |
| K | am (noon) / pm hours (afternoon) in (0-11) | Number | 0 |
| h | am (noon) / pm hours (afternoon) in (1-12) | Number | 12 |
| m | The number of minutes in the hour | Number | 30 |
| s | The number of seconds in a minute | Number | 55 |
| S | The number of milliseconds | Number | 978 |
Note: z, when Z area is not common, but also affect my table appearance.