CSV Mapping - Custom Date Format
Extensiv Integration Manager users can configure date formats for outgoing CSV files, such as WMS - Order file, CSV Carts - Confirm file, and CSV Carts - Inventory files.
| CSV Carts | WMS Interface | |
|---|---|---|
| Order File | Not Supported | Yes |
| Confirmation File | Yes | Not Supported |
| Inventory File | Yes | Not Supported |
Date Format:
To edit date formats, please go to the Edit CSV File page. This function is only available on Edit CSV File page.
Commonly used date formats:
| Date Format String | Results |
|---|---|
| (leave blank) | Integration Manager Default: 2001-03-10 17:16:18 |
| Y-m-d H:i:s | 2001-03-10 17:16:18 |
| Y-m-d | 2001-03-10 |
| c | ISO 8601 Date: 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00 |
| F j, Y, g:i a | March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm |
| m.d.y | 03.10.01 |
Date Format Cheat Sheet:
Date | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| d | Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros | 01 to 31 |
| D | A textual representation of a day, three letters | Mon through Sun |
| j | Day of the month without leading zeros | 1 to 31 |
| l (lowercase 'L') | A full textual representation of the day of the week | Sunday through Saturday |
| N | ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week | 1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday) |
| S | English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters | st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j |
| w | Numeric representation of the day of the week | 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday) |
| z | The day of the year (starting from 0) | 0 through 365 |
Week | --- | --- |
| W | ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday | Example: 42 (the 42nd week in the year) |
Month | --- | --- |
| F | A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March | January through December |
| m | Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros | 01 through 12 |
| M | A short textual representation of a month, three letters | Jan through Dec |
| n | Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros | 1 through 12 |
| t | Number of days in the given month | 28 through 31 |
Year | --- | --- |
| L | Whether it's a leap year | 1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise. |
| o | ISO-8601 week-numbering year. This has the same value as Y, except that if the ISO week number (W) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. | Examples: 1999 or 2003 |
| Y | A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits | Examples: 1999 or 2003 |
| y | A two digit representation of a year | Examples: 99 or 03 |
Time | --- | --- |
| a | Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | am or pm |
| A | Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem | AM or PM |
| B | Swatch Internet time | 000 through 999 |
| g | 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 1 through 12 |
| G | 24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros | 0 through 23 |
| h | 12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 01 through 12 |
| H | 24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros | 00 through 23 |
| i | Minutes with leading zeros | 00 to 59 |
| s | Seconds, with leading zeros | 00 through 59 |
| u | Microseconds. Will always be 000000 since timestamp data is only available to the second. | Example: 654321 |
| v | Milliseconds. Same note applies as for u. | Example: 654 |
Timezone | --- | --- |
| e | Timezone identifier | Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores |
| I (capital i) | Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time | 1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise. |
| O | Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours | Example: +0200 |
| P | Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes | Example: +02:00 |
| T | Timezone abbreviation | Examples: EST, MDT ... |
| Z | Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive. | -43200 through 50400 |
Full Date/Time | --- | --- |
| c | ISO 8601 date (added in PHP 5) | 2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00 |
| r | ยป RFC 2822 formatted date | Example: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200 |
Escape Characters
If you need to use a character in your date formatting that is a reserved character from above, it must be escaped. Escape characters by preceding them with a backslash: \
Example Format: \D\a\y Y-m-d
Example Result: Day 2017-01-30
CSV Date Format Sample:
The following example will put YYYY-MM-DD in the CSV order_date field.
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The "Data Format Cheat Sheet" portion of this page is originally from php.net and has been modified to reflect the specific implementation used by Extensiv.
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