Specifying The Date Format In AutoCAD Title Blocks

For the AutoCAD link it is now possible to specify, per title block, what date/time format to use. To specify the format, add a value to the relevant title block definition in the AutoCAD Application Link Settings:

[TITLEBLOCK]

TitleBlockDateFormat=[format string]

The format string can consist of one or two parts: one for the date, and one for the time. To specify a date format use “D{date format string}”; to specify a time format, use “T{time format string}”. If an empty string is used (“D{}” and “T{}”) the system settings are used for short formats. If not TitleBlockDateFormat value is specified at all, the default “D{}” will be used.

Date formatting options:

• d Day of the month.
• dd Day of the month as two digit number with leading zero.
• ddd Day of the week as three letter abbreviation. The used abbreviation is determined by the systems regional settings.
• dddd Day of the week as full name. The used name is determined by the systems regional settings.
• M Month as number.
• MM Month as two digit number with leading zero.
• MMM Month as three letter abbreviation. The used abbreviation is determined by the systems regional settings.
• MMMM Month as full name. The used name is determined by the systems regional settings.
• y Year as two digit number without leading zero.
• yy Year as two digit number with leading zero.
• yyyy Year as four digit number.
  

Time formatting options:

• h Hours in 12-hour notation.
• hh Hours in 12-hour notation as two digit number with leading zero.
• H Hours in 24-hour notation.
• HH Hours in 24-hour notation as two digit number with leading zero.
• m Minutes.
• mm Minutes as two digit number with leading zero.
• s Seconds.
• ss Seconds as two digit number with leading zero.
• t AM/PM string as single character. The used abbreviation is determined by the systems regional settings.
• tt AM/PM string as word. The used text is determined by the systems regional settings.
  

Examples:

• D{dddd MMMM d yyyy} T{hh:mm:ss tt}    Sunday June 1 2003 02:04:23 PM
• D{dd-MMM-yyyy} T{HH:mm:ss}    01-Jun-2003 14:04:23
• D{m-d-yy} T{h:mmt}    6-1-03 2:04p
  

Note that when specifying date/time formatting strings it is likely that the link between AutoCAD and TeamWork is unable to convert the values back from the title block to the TeamWork vault.