How to truncate/format the timestamp in Windchill

[ChrisPeters]

Hi All,

I want to format/truncate the timestamp which appears for Created On/Last Modified On attributes in Local Time Zone format. I need only the date, not the time. I don't find anything in the preference manager to configure this. Any idea how to approach?

Thanks,

Wasim

[bmulder1]

Hi Wasim,

I'm looking for the same problem as you a year ago. No reply I see. So does it exist to change the format?

Where are the ProE software developers?

Regards

Bernard

[MatthewKnight · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure where you want to modify these attributes. There are a couple of things you could look at to see what works best for you.

1. The describeColumn tag has a dateDisplayFormat attribute. This would be my preference, assuming it works.

2. You may be able to get away with modifying STANDARD_DATE_TIME_ZONE_DISPLAY_FORMAT in com.ptc.core.ui.componentRB, which would probably change just about everything. I would be worried about unintended consequences with this one.

[ChrisPeters]

Thanks a lot Matthew. It worked.

[bmulder1]

Thanks Matthew and Chris.

The goal is to import this into ProE on drawings. FridayI managed with an extra parameter. This has to implemented in the start part/assembly.

mod_date=extract(ptc_wm_created_on,1,9) It shows only the date with the year "12" as 2012.

Maybe your solution van provide the whole notation 2012.

Regards

Bernard

[JariElomaa]

For anyone else trying to find a solution, this one worked for me:

https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS49539

Summary:

There seems to be a hidden config pro option date_type_parameter_format and with the value %yyyy-%mm-%dd you can get the ISO 8601 date format: 2014-02-10.