Constructs an empty DateFormat object, eg. pattern ””, locale Locale.DEFAULT. You'll have to call setStyle() or set the pattern property to something meaningfull if you want the DateFormat to make sense.

Constructs a DateFormat object with specified predefined patterns and specific locale.

Constructs a DateFormat object with the specified pattern string.

Type: String

The current formatting pattern. It's syntax is almost equal to the formatting pattern in the java class --> java.text.SimpleDateFormat except that the lines starting with a '#' are not implemented, because they would require some advanced date calculations that are not provided by the JavaScript Date object. Maybe I'll implement them in some future version.

Symbol   Meaning                 Presentation        Example
------   -------                 ------------        -------
G        era designator          (Text)              AD
y        year                    (Number)            1996
M        month in year           (Text & Number)     July & 07
d        day in month            (Number)            10
h        hour in am/pm (1~12)    (Number)            12
H        hour in day (0~23)      (Number)            0
m        minute in hour          (Number)            30
s        second in minute        (Number)            55
S        millisecond             (Number)            978
E        day in week             (Text)              Tuesday
#D        day in year             (Number)            189
#F        day of week in month    (Number)            2 (2nd Wed in July)
#w        week in year            (Number)            27
#W        week in month           (Number)            2
a        am/pm marker            (Text)              PM
k        hour in day (1~24)      (Number)            24
K        hour in am/pm (0~11)    (Number)            0
z        time zone               (Text)              Pacific Standard Time
'        escape for text         (Delimiter)
''       single quote            (Literal)           '

The count of pattern letters determine the format.

* (Text): 4 or more pattern letters – use full form, < 4 letters – use short or abbreviated form if one exists. * (Number): The minimum number of digits. Shorter numbers are zero-padded to this amount. Year is handled specially; that is, if the count of 'y' is 2, the Year will be truncated to 2 digits. * (Text & Number): 3 or over, use text, otherwise use number.

Any characters in the pattern that are not in the ranges of 'a'..'z' and 'A'..'Z' will be treated as quoted text. For instance, characters like ':', '.', ' ', '#' and '@' will appear in the resulting time text even they are not embraced within single quotes.

Type: Locale object

The current Locale object. Available Locales can be accessed through the Locale.availableLocales collection.

This one does all the work, eg. it takes a JavaScript date as parameter and outputs a formatted string according to the current formatting pattern.

This one lets you specify one of the predefined formatting pattern styles. Useful in conjunction with the no-param constructor.

Constructs an empty Locale object with the given name.

Constructs a Locale object with the given name that inherits all it's properties from the specified parent Locale.

Returns the Locale's name.

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