A Skills Builder user can capture a date in various formats including Epoch and translate it in a user-friendly manner.
The following strings are available to manage the date format, which helps translating dates that were either specified by a user or from a web service. This is useful for displaying a date back to a user or passing a date to another web service in the required format.
- <attribute_idenitifier>_iso_tz
- <attribute_idenitifier>_iso_no_tz
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Usage in the text response:
Configuration data in a skill:
Here is the start date in epoch: @context.date_time and in ISO 8601 format: @context.date_time_iso_tz and iso without timezone format: @context.date_time_iso_no_t'.
Text response displayed to the end-user with actual values:
Here is the start date in epoch: 1560576600 and in ISO 8601 format: 2019-06-15T11:00:00+05:30 and iso without timezone format: 2019-06-15T11:00:00
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