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At many places our components having FormatMask property. When this property is used to format date or time, we are using standard Delphi/CBuilder FormatDateTime function.

Since we ofter have requeststs abot this functions, please read bellow for full examples about using this property.

Example:

FormatMask := 'm.d.yyyy'

Example:

Edit1.Text := FormatDateTime('m.d.yyyy', Now);

Table 1: FormatDateTime rules
Rule	Example	Description
m	5	month 1 - 12
mm	05	month 01 - 12
mmm	Apr	short month name
mmmm	May	full month name
d	9	day 1 - 31
dd	09	day 01 - 31
ddd	Thu	short day name
dddd	Monday	full day name
y, yy	08	last two diggits of year
yyy, yyyy	08	full year number
h	7	Hour number
hh	07	Hour number

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