How to change format of date/time?

Question

I have this date and time format:

2010-05-19 07:53:30

and would like to change it to:

Wednesday @ 7:53PM 5/19/2010

Answer 1

I think your formatting string is the problem. You should only use the characters you find in the table in UTS#35 Date Format Patterns. I tried your code and while the time hh:mm displays correctly, formatting stops at tt - not in the table!

If you really want characters in the format string that are not in the table you can escape them, like hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz - produces format like "12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time".